Re: New EyeOne ruler and soft case
Re: New EyeOne ruler and soft case
- Subject: Re: New EyeOne ruler and soft case
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:11:38 -0800
In a message dated Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:09:17 -0800, RS wrote:
> I'd guess a few of us are so interested in the topic that we'd entertain
> the idea of meeting at a central location and pooling our resources
> together to fly in a sage color expert (appropriate compensation provided,
> of course) for a day or two high-level color management and profile
> editing training.
In a message dated Tue, Nov 1, 2005 8:52 AM, Steve Kale wrote:
> I am interested as to why you think you need it. Inherently, the desire to
> "edit" a profile must mean that something is wrong with it. Why not just
> reprofile? If that doesn't suit, then one is inherently saying there is
> something wrong with the profiling package or test chart which would be
> rather alarming - or perhaps not if the alarm is sounded by someone whose
> level of colour management understanding is such that they require the
> tuition sought here. I suspect the level of knowledge required to correct
> issues with a good profiling system is considerable - even to understand
> what those issues may be and whether they can be suitably corrected.
> Personally I wonder if GM have provided the editing tool to quieten a bunch
> of users who with little knowledge were demanding something that perhaps
> they don't really need. I am of course happy to be proven wrong.
I tend to agree with Steve. It seems to me that many people, when they
approach color management, they learn just enough to make a profile,
possibly doing a so-so job of it do to incomplete knowledge; then they test
the profile, find it lacking, and from there they head straight for the
profile editor without first auditing their own profile-creation procedure.
What I am saying is that the first thing to do when a profile does not
behave as advertised is (a) to check the instrumentation + software
combination being used, and (b) to put in question one's own abilities at
the task on hand.
It is usually difficult to go back and look critically at one's own work,
since many of us are uncomfortable entertaining the idea of their own
shortcomings. Nonetheless, editing should be a last resort *after* making
sure that all the variables check out. It's *not* the first place to go as
soon as something turns out wrong. The best one can hope for by using this
shortcut are mediocre results, compounded by the digital equivalents of
band-aids.
This sort of "overly-medicated color management" ends up defeating its own
purpose.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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