Colorblind Edit OSX
Colorblind Edit OSX
- Subject: Colorblind Edit OSX
- From: Neil Barstow <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:04:26 +0000
Hi everyone
I was wondering about that old workhorse Colorblind Edit. (to be used
as an input profile editor).
Apparently, now with a new lease of life - updated for OSX.
In the tedious world of profile editing I'd imagine more tools are
potentially better than less, of course the better you know the tools
you have the better they work. But, there is often a need for some
specialist feature that only one software has. The carpenter often has
a few dozen wood saws, many of which seem pretty similar to the
uninitiated, but, in expert hands, a particular one willl do wonders.
AFAIK one of my Colour Management and imaging heroes Joseph Holmes made
his variations of Ektachrome Space in Edit.
Has to be interesting then?
So, I'm wondering, is Edit a tool just for the <<old hands>> who have
been using it since way back, or is it still an imporant part of the
arsenal?
Does the OSX version work right?
One moan of old seemed to be that the manual was unintelligible, or was
it non-existent? users who learned the ins and outs seemed to swear by
CBE tho'.
So, what's the deal nowadays?
Especially with a view to editing input profiles.
A: with good visual feedback.
B: with the option to populate all the RGB>Lab/PCS intents with the edit
C: perhaps even with the possibility of further edits (based on earlier
ones, i.e. not starting over each time) without the hit of RE-EDITING
an already edited profile
Was CBE designed to do all this? has it survived being updated long
after the birds who invented it have flown the coop?
I already use GMB PMP5 profile edit and soon will use Monaco Profiler
too. I'm also looking forward to the new Kodak Photoshop plug-in
Profile Editor if it ever makes it out of the lab (i.e. becomes
available to us). I did like what I saw of the OS9 version but it has
apparently given up in classic (and didn't do input profiles anyway).
Having said all the above I guess my belief is that profile editing is
often the result of bad measurements, incorrect charts, bad RIP
linearisation, unsuitable paper stock etc. But for specific <looks> in
input profiles maybe Colorblind Edit would be nice? Since digi cameras
suffer some strange idiosyncracies and the cam profile manufacturers
seem to be playing to the <more saturation is better> crowd, then might
it have a place?
all the best
neil
Neil Barstow
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