Re: maclife.de
Re: maclife.de
- Subject: Re: maclife.de
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:03:08 -0400
> Why is it impossible for Adobe to let me
> chose my own destination color space ?
>
> Thanks,
> Karsten
For the very same reason that Adobe refuses to offer Lch readout in the Info
palette in Photoshop, CS after CS after CS releases : PO-LI-TICS.
Obviously, color is anything but neutral.
There is the ICC and there is WCS. There is Nikon and there is Canon.
Heidelberg, Apple, X-Rite, ColorVision, PANTONE, Kodak, Adobe, Epson, HP,
everyone is vying for his place under the sun. Everyone has its own opinion
as to what should be the "norm" in their respective applications. Be it
camera profiling, measurements, proofing, inks, technology ; no wonder the
world of color is so scary and chaotic, sometimes.
BUT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ANYONE EXPRESSING OPINIONS ABOUT COLOR ON
THIS LIST. And I hope Apple will continue to keep it that way for many years
to come.
I personally look forward to read and contribute to this list every day of
my life because color is such a central part of my professional interests. I
live and breathe in color. I spend all my hard-earned money on all kinds of
color gears, litterature, seminars and conference. And I know I am ruining
my health working on all kinds of silly, little color projects of my own
until the wee hours of the morning, every day. That's why I welcome *all*
ideas and opinions, from everyone, about color and color management *all the
time*, you see. I find color absolutely fascinating. I agree I may get my
facts wrong once is a while or stumble on my english syntax, here and there,
while trying to express my opinion or information about some things but I
value the openess of everyone's opinions in return. And I especially value
the altruism of certain regular contributors who take the time to publish
and share openly their hard-earned color findings and knowledge on this
List, whoever they are, wherever they are -- you know who you are. In this
open process, I ask you, can it be otherwise that groups of contributors
come to express conflicting views about those very findings and opinions? Of
course it can't be otherwise. But, please, let's keep it that way. The
alternative is what? No communications at all? No replies? A 1984 Orwell's
Big Brother kind of society? Come on. Ideas and opinions know no boundary
today -- good or bad. The internet made ir that way. So what if someone
doesn't agree that DNG has a future? Or believe that CameraRAW stinks? Or
doenn't see the benefits of leading-edge developments like Argyll? So what?
I say let's talk about it! We can't be on agreement on everything all the
time, can we, as a group? Please. Can we help some people being forever
stuck one some deeply held beliefs that such and such is right or wrong?
Maybe. Yes. No. It isn't clear. But one thing sure is we got to refrain from
open character assassination and gratuitous evaluative judgements about
someone's findings or facts. If a contributor feels personX is wrong or
advancing facts that are believed NOT to be backed by his particular
experience, let that contributor advance facts of his own, in support of his
opinions, not just pass judgements after judgements after judgements about
that person. That absolutely does not help and degrade the bandwidth of this
List. If anyhing, that's far from how we know science advances.
So, I'll shut up, (thank god!) since not everybody agrees with my opinions,
anyway, but allow me, in closing, to continue encouraging the open
discussion of color in this extraordinary meeting place on the internet.
Thank you Steve Jobs for maintaining this List and fostering the open
dissemination of ideas of all kinds about color and its management.
I personally thoroughly enjoy every minute of it.
Roger Breton
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