Re: Remote proofing
Re: Remote proofing
- Subject: Re: Remote proofing
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:09:28 -0800
At 5:42 AM -0800 3/12/04, Doug Walker wrote:
Bruce,
Given an image of people with subtle skintones In the above case and
printing to a 1270/1280 Epson printer, would it be better to bind
late by moving out of ProPhoto RGB by converting to Adobe RGB and
then to my flavored output profile or is it simply a case where
understanding and choosing RelCol in this case as you print to Epson
would yield better results.
I generally don't think putting the image through an additional
conversion is a good idea. If you know the output, you can soft-proof
and optimize the image for that output. I was raising the problem in
the context of preparing images for multiple unknown outputs.
Also, as a photographer, it would be immensely helpful to see a
visual representation of that which you tout above. Is there such
an aid?
The one I use is Steve Upton's excellent ColorThink (available from
www.chromix.com). In addition to viewing 3D gamuts of profiles, it
actually lets you load an image into 3D Lab space, and plot the
conversion from source to destination as vectors, so you can see
exactly how each color in the image shifts.
I must admit this whole RelCol and Perceptual thing is not as easy
to get around as I would want. And I own and have read your fine
book.
The only rational way I know to choose a rendering intent is, choose
the one that makes the image look best on the output. (If the output
is unknown, I submit that there is no rational basis for choosing a
rendering intent, which is where I came into this discussion!)
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