Re: Rendering intents in source profiles?
Re: Rendering intents in source profiles?
- Subject: Re: Rendering intents in source profiles?
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:48:50 +0200
Hi Roger,
Karl,
The more you describe basICColor on this list, the more I have the
impression that it's very advanced. Is there like, possibly, some
time-limited, fully functional version one could try? Available on
your web site, by any chance? And how is your documentation?
While I'm not Karl ;-) , I hope I can provide some - hopefully
unbiased - information from my Mac Life test.
basICColor is an absolutely high-end software, from the software I
tested (unfortunately I just learned I overlooked TGLC (www.tglc.com))
on par only with ProfileMaker.
The two are a very different bunch, though. ProfileMaker excels if you
want to experiment and "look behind the scenes" (it's easy to import
any kind of data format to it, it documents the measurement data that
a profile is based upon in a tag of this profile, it interfaces nicely
to the excellent ColorLab etc.), whereas basICColor is unrivaled if
you want to "simply" *use* color management optimally in your
production workflow (highly (though not especially easily)
configurable batch processing and a lot of optimizing features like
the one discussed here).
As far as profile quality goes, ProfileMaker provides clearly better
results for input profiles (scanner/camera), whereas basICColor
produces absolutely the best printer profiles and (together with
Quato's (www.quato.de) iColor Display) the best display profiles
(Quato and basICColor share the same color engine written by Color
Logic (www.colorlogic.de)). Note, however, that for whatever reason
i1Match (which generally uses the same Logo engine as ProfileMaker)
builds much better projector profiles than basICColor does.
The PDF manuals provided by basICColor are excellent. (I only looked
at the German versions, but I would think this also applies to the
English ones. :-) ). You can get 14-day trial licenses from
basICColor's web site which are fully functional. Unfortunately,
basICColor is the only color management vendor that mistrusts its
customers so much that it thinks it needs to issue host-bound
licenses, which makes the whole licensing procedure a hassle. :-(
As far as Mac OS X compatibility is concerned, both products are a far
cry from a modern Cocoa app. They do run flawlessly on Mac OS X,
though (which cannot be said of a lot of other apps, the Monaco apps
especially).
I hope that helps.
Bye
Uli
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