Re: use of sRGB as a default
Re: use of sRGB as a default
- Subject: Re: use of sRGB as a default
- From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 05:29:56 -0500
John,
Please excuse my impertinence, but ...
At 1:49 pm -0700 6/17/04, John Zimmerer wrote:
The goal is to make sure each image's color characteristics are
defined by an embedded profile, so "untagged data" no longer exists.
This is a noble goal, but it doesn't change the fact that most of us
are inundated with untagged files daily; they come from the web, from
digital cameras and numerous other sources.
A high percentage of those files actually WERE created in, or
converted to, sRGB.
At 2:15 pm -0700 6/17/04, John Zimmerer wrote:
Now about sRGB as a default color space.
We understand that...
We understand that...
We realize that...
We understand sRGB as a color space has severe limitations....
Given all of the above, Apple does not believe that sRGB is an
appropriate choice for a default RGB color space for untagged images.
I personally despise sRGB as a working space; it's limits are
egregiously obvious when you try to make quality prints using it.
That doesn't mean that I can stick my head in the sand and say it
doesn't exist when I have to work with a preponderancy of files that
were patently created in, or converted to, sRGB but are untagged.
Sure, I can mostly solve the problem by blasting sRGB tags onto
untagged images and then putting them into a tagged workflow, but
that doesn't do anything for my users who are getting magenta
monstrosities when they print from Apple apps like Safari or Preview.
sRGB is a truly abysmal standard, but that doesn't mean that those of
us out in the real world don't have to deal with it.
If Apple is going to have any future cred in color it is going to
have to make it easy for the naive user to produce quality prints
from any program: That means that untagged web and digicam photos
print spot-on. The only way I can see to do that is to embrace sRGB
for untagged images as the default and let advanced users change the
preference.
By the way: How could anyone hired to program Mac OS X color issues
be so unaware of color-management as to assign the monitor profile as
the source?
-=-Dennis
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