Re: Photoshop Gamut warning vs ColorThink
Re: Photoshop Gamut warning vs ColorThink
- Subject: Re: Photoshop Gamut warning vs ColorThink
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:29:33 -0700
- Thread-topic: Photoshop Gamut warning vs ColorThink
On 2/27/08 8:49 AM, "Mark McCormick-Goodhart" wrote:
> I agree with Chris that the gamut warning is more
> useful today than ever. Why? Because many folks are moving to larger
> and larger working spaces. Prophoto seems to be getting recommended
> to photographers a lot, lately. Because no monitor exists that can
> display the wide gamut of such a working space and worse yet, some
> colors are imaginary, I find it very useful to have an overlay that
> guides me to the color clipping transition of the printer output
> rather than the apparent clipping that is being caused by the monitor
> profile.
But you can't print the color, so what's the use? You can't see the colors
too (on a lot of displays) and you can't print them. What's the usefulness
here with respect to what a user can and cannot do? Its a somewhat useful
geek feature and maybe for the occasional teaching exercise (better, move
the image into ColorThink and plot it over a working space or output space
in 3D).
Prior to Photoshop 5, the idea was to display an overlay and adjust the out
of gamut colors using something like the Sponge tool until the overlay
disappeared. Our output profiles do the mapping for us better and faster
and, we have a soft proof to show us this (within the confines of the
display gamut). I see this as simply a legacy option and Adobe doesn't like
to ever remove anything no matter how few people use it (despite the cries
that the application is too complicated and bloated).
As to imaginary colors, well some have issues with the term. While some
refer to colors outside the spectrum locus as "imaginary colors", others
have said that a coordinate in a "colorspace" outside the spectrum locus is
not a color (color, being a perceptual property, if you can't see it it's
not a color). That would be another interesting debate <g>.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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