Re: Setting default RGB in OS X 10.4?
Re: Setting default RGB in OS X 10.4?
- Subject: Re: Setting default RGB in OS X 10.4?
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 14:21:20 -0600
On May 5, 2005, at 4:48 AM, Rolf Gierling wrote:
My simple question to that answer is:
Did anyone at Apple ask us, the users, the ones who pay,
if we use it, if we like it?
I don't even think Nikon users like it. They just use it because there
is no other UI for what they need to do, provided by Nikon themselves.
My biggest complaint was not so much the existence of unused default
profile settings, but the many years the OS basically lied to us about
what these settings were actually used for. A phraseology change could
have fixed that problem, leaving the seldom used settings intact.
However, the deed is done and I consider this just an unusual
incompatibility between 10.4 and Nikon Capture. It's not a crashing
bug, which in a way would make things easier. But Nikon can't at all
pretend that their software is fully functional at this time, on Tiger.
It's their responsibility to fix it.
There have been discussions since the introduction of Mac OS X about
the discrepancies
between the system using Generic profiles and the settings done in the
ColorSync Utility.
If I understood the results right, most of us would have liked that
the system behaviour
would be the one set up in ColorSync Utility. Once set up, then to
forget.
It was always a pipe dream that this would happen. Developers didn't
cooperate for one, and users really didn't use it either. The UI was
too simplistic to be effective in all applications anyway. It's not
just about source profiles. The default profiles description makes it
clear to the end user that they are to be used as source profiles. That
a developer would create an application using them as destination
profiles is pretty whacked. So let's call this poor design on the part
of Nikon from the get go, and at this point an incompatible piece of
software on Tiger, at least for professional use (since presumably
professional users will not want their files converted to Generic RGB).
And still that lack of documentation, for ColorSync users, and for
ColorSync developers.
Lack of documentation is absolutely a problem. An on-going problem at
that.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Co-author "Real World Color Management, 2nd Edition"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-321-26722-2)
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