Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- Subject: Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:34:19 -0700
Apple offered system level user settable space profiles for RGB,
CMYK, and Gray spaces long ago. No applications used them for a long
while and these were pretty straightforward, a common setting for
color space profiles, and even that was barely adopted by
developers. I'd think more involved policies would have met a
similar if not worse fate. Photoshop eventually added an option to
use those settings but that's about it. After years of users asking
"now tell me what these settings are supposed to do again?" they were
removed. We have device profiles of course, meaning displays
printers scanners and cameras can have profiles assigned to them. We
don't write every scanner and printer driver out there, so not all of
them use this or use it equally well, but it's certainly available to
developers.
Apple does support DNG on the OS level, you can open a DNG file, or
any raw file for a supported camera, in Preview, view it inline in
Mail, or open it in any app that uses ImageIO to render images.
Apple doesn't support writing DNG or raw, they're treated as
unmodifiable originals. You can argue the pros and cons of that, but
the idea is to keep your raw files in their original state. A raw
file is sensor data right off the camera, a representation of how
light afftected that camera at that instant. That's never going to
change unless you have a time machine, in which case I want to borrow
it briefly. Raw processing is variable, three years from now if the
raw conversion algorithms have improved you'll be able to open your
original raw files and have them look better.
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