Re: Photoshop Gamut warning vs ColorThink
Re: Photoshop Gamut warning vs ColorThink
- Subject: Re: Photoshop Gamut warning vs ColorThink
- From: Mark McCormick-Goodhart <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:38:49 -0500
On Feb 27, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Andrew Rodney wrote:
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.
As is the case with many PS tools, there are different ways of
approaching a particular problem. You may elect to handle your out-of-
printable-range colors one way, and I another. Different strokes,
neither right nor wrong. To say that if one can't print the colors
you want, one can't do anything about it that is superior to the
conversion by a specific ICC profile, flies in the face of every
color and tone translation that both proprietary profiling maps and
hands-on image edits attempt to negotiate all the time.
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 understand that many people allow the profile to do all the heavy
lifting, and leave the outcome more or less as it happened, perhaps
with a few tweaks on top of their "master file" before hitting the
print button. I tend to prepare my images from scratch and purpose-
built for my chosen printer/ink/paper combination. Yes, I'm guided in
a big way by the profile's "suggested" rendering at the beginning,
but I then work patiently from there. Besides softproofing, both the
info tool and gamut warning features are my close allies. I have the
luxury of time with my images, others do not. Again, different
strokes for...
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>.
I don't have the luxury of time for that one!
Thanks to everyone for all the interesting comments and insights
about the PS gamut warning feature.
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