Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
- Subject: Re: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:30:02 -0600
- Thread-topic: Designers, Color Management, and Xrite , some thoughts and comments.
On 4/19/08 1:18 AM, "Uli Zappe" wrote:
> 1. The ColorMunki targets "non-experts".
That's what they say (users working with Photoshop not Elements and need
some behind the scenes method of altering their Photoshop settings). And
users who have to calibrate a projector (which may be feed color manage
data, maybe not).
> Those are more likely than
> experts to use their Macs for a variety of tasks, not all of which put
> color management above everything else.
I don't know that a non expert uses such applications more or less than
experts. I watch video on my Mac all the time (and its calibrated to 2.2, it
doesn't look awful to me).
> In other words, it is
> essential that basic Mac functionality remains unaffected in its
> integrity if the ColorMunki is used.
That's like expecting CM will implement (among other functionality), world
piece. There's an OS or application issue going on here if indeed some
applications will look less than idea with a 2.2 gamma.
There's NO REASON why CM software could not be designed such that a user
could pick between 1.8 and 2.2 (or both) without ever having to ask the user
about the term Gamma. I'm not suggesting X-Rite not provide an option and
lock users into one setting! I'm suggesting they failed (in just this ONE
example) to move forward in removing this question from a user who has no
idea what is being asked nor why.
> Now like it or not, the reality
> is that some important areas of Mac OS X are not color managed, most
> notably everything movie related and the GUI.
Then nothing here is going to fix this in terms of the X-Rite product.
Again, its like the old, stale argument from the design community in large
part that they should setup Photoshop wrong so it previews images like their
dumb web browsers instead of telling users to download Safari. Their
argument is "Only 5% of people use Safari and its dumb of us to tell them to
use it if they want to see the images properly". Well you either care about
the color or you don't. If you do, there's a simply solution despite the
market number for this browser.
> Frankly, I was completely stunned that a vendor could even think of
> offering an entry-level color management application with a fixed
> gamma of 2.2 on a Mac.
I've not suggested that, I'm suggesting they don't have to know what gamma
means nor select a value that to them is meaningless. You can show them a
stinking picture of a TV playing video next to an image of a Photoshop icon
(to make up something quickly) and ask them which they intend to use and
even build TWO profiles and have them switch on the fly with a simple
utility (something I can do with my aging Sony Artisan, and my newer NEC
SpectraView in the host software).
There's all kinds of other equally undesired and unnecessary areas in the UI
that could have moved such users past the old color management mindset that
WAS discussed by the beta testers but unfortunately at such a late time in
the development of the software that there was no way X-Rite would even
consider fixing or improving the design of the product. So they came into
this assignment with a gun to their heads and came with the same old notions
of having users begin the task of display calibration (let alone making
printer profiles), we've seen for a decade despite nearly every users
demanding vendors make color management easier! The software is neither
revolutionary nor evolutionary. It could have been one. But it was designed
and produced without anywhere as much care as the hardware. And I know of
what I'm saying, it was at least 2 12 years ago I saw the hardware in the
form of a wood block! I don't know that my NDA allows me to say more about
the development.
Bottom line, time will tell how the market reacts to the software. Users are
already reporting bugs, bugs that shouldn't have found their way into a
released software product.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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