Monitor space as profile
Monitor space as profile
- Subject: Monitor space as profile
- From: "Mark Rice" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:44:16 -0400
I won't bitch at you - as a retoucher, I think this is very astute. When one
is dealing with an untagged image, as is very common in a commercial
environment, "how it looks" is the only stable value one has - so pass on
"how it looks" to the next user.
Mark Rice
www.zero1inc.com
email@hidden
Message: 9
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 03:38:32 -0500
From: Matt Deatherage <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: use of sRGB as a default
To: coloru <email@hidden>
On 6/19/04 at 3:33 PM, Chris Murphy <email@hidden> wrote:
>
On Jun 19, 2004, at 4:29 AM, Dennis W. Manasco wrote:
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> By the way: How could anyone hired to program Mac OS X color issues be
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> so unaware of color-management as to assign the monitor profile as the
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> source?
Well, I hate to interrupt such an unfettered session of naked superiority,
but here goes.
I'm a programmer. I have an image editing program. I open an image that has
no profile attached, and the user edits it, adjusting colors, levels,
rotating this or that, airbrushing whatever. Now I want to save the image,
but there's no existing profile information. I have to assign a profile to
it. The only source I have is - you guessed it - the display.
My user has made the image look the way he wants using his display. The
most logical thing to do is to embed the display profile. Given the basic
concepts, that *should* mean that the embedded profile describes how the raw
pixel values differ from the ideal color space. Either that, or I convert
the image using the display as a source with "generic" as a destination and
embed the profile to describe how the raw pixel values *should* look. Or
something like that.
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