Soft-proofing shadows
Soft-proofing shadows
- Subject: Soft-proofing shadows
- From: "eugene appert" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:12:38 -0400
I am trying to discover precisely what the black point of my monitor is?
For some reason Colorthink displays my Eye One monitor profile's black point
as L*0.
My understanding of the black point check in Real World Color Management (
page 216) is to determine how accurately virtual black values of the file
data ( L*0, L*1, L*2 ...etc) are being mapped to the maximum shadow point
of the monitor. But I would like to discover precisely where my monitor
begins to compress those shadow values. My main concern in soft-proofing
image files is to see how the conversion will compress tonal distinctions in
the deepest shadow areas, but I suspect that the black point of the monitor
is higher than the black point of the printer/paper profile which means I
may only be seeing how the monitor is compressing printable values it cant
show me.
Admittedly you wouldn't be able to soft-proof accurately on a monitor if its
black point is higher than the output device, which makes my question more
or less academic. In that case the monitor would only provide a reasonable
simulation of the reproduction curve. This is perhaps all it can do. It
would however be useful to me to know how far apart the printer/paper and
monitor black points are, this would colour the way I interpreted how the
screen separates shadow detail while soft proofing. .
I would appreciate any light anyone could shine into my dim grasp of this.
Thank you
Eugene Appert
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