Re: "How-to" : color managed workflow for un-color managed display ?
Re: "How-to" : color managed workflow for un-color managed display ?
- Subject: Re: "How-to" : color managed workflow for un-color managed display ?
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:08:32 -0700
In a message dated 10/8/06 9:01 AM, Olivier Desmaison wrote:
> I have assignments where I must deliver a packshot file in sRGB TIFF toghether
> with a printed proof, yet the client's evaluation for final agreement or
> additional correction requests is to be made via web mail viewed on an
> uncalibrated un-color managed display.
>
> Until now, I have simply pre-corrected the file in Photoshop with a color
> managed workflow, generated an untagged JPEG file, view it on a second display
> which I kept uncalibrated and unprofiled and try by mere eyes to match the PS
> file and the JPEG viewing. This is loose and I feel this is ridiculous. Yet I
> have not found a way of simplifying the process.
>
> Is there a way I could simulate an uncalibrated unprofiled display environment
> yet retaining the possibility to have a proper tagged file for printing the
> proof ? Like generating a profile from an uncalibrated display and use the
> profile for assigning or softproofing ?
I strongly doubt that such a thing can possibly be achieved.
There are hundreds, or more likely thousands of ways in which monitors can
differ from one another when they are in an uncalibrated and/or unprofiled
state. You have displays that are too red, too blue, too yellow, etc., or
too light or too dark, or too flat, or too contrasty, or too bright, or too
dim, and so forth. The combinations are potentially endless.
Come to think of it, if something like what you are striving to do were
possible, the whole point of color management would be made irrelevant:
after all, why bother at all to profile if there is a feasible and effective
workaround? And we know that such is not the case.
The best you can hope for is this: go to your client(s) and offer to profile
the monitor(s) for them FOR FREE! If that cannot be done, or they turn down
your offer, I truly don't know what else would work.
Good luck.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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