Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
- Subject: Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:03:42 -0600
On Sep 7, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Uli Zappe wrote:
Again, had Adobe sticked to the existing ICC standard, they'd have
delivered a profile editor instead that now everyone could use.
That's a HUGE assumption to make and not at all necessarily so. In
fact, the fact that they control the entire process using what some
complain about being proprietary is probably the reason we have such
tools. Adobe has an interest in ensuring their customers have the
necessarily solutions to make their products competitive. Had they
used standard ICC profiles, this probably wouldn't be the case for an
Adobe profile editor/creator which cost their customers nothing.
You'll note that there's no way to edit existing ICC profiles within
Photoshop and there may never be. Instead with have a basically broken
CMYK engine that's basically unchanged since version 2.
Assuming you own X-Rite's new and excellent i1 XTreme package, which
at Euro 1500 (don't know the Dollar price) almost anyone interested
in color management will, it will cost you some Euro 250 for a
Digital ColorChecker SG, and that's it. You might even get by with a
Wolf Faust camera target for Euro 15.
Its far from free! And you specifically mentioned ProfileMaker Pro
which is thousands of dollars. So PMP and Match in your tests produced
identical results with identical functionality?
I think this is a matter of preference (so again, choice would be
good).
Yes indeed and in terms of market share, despite some bitching
directed towards Adobe, end users seem to have voted with their dollars.
Yes, I would have preferred if Adobe sticked to standards, but they
haven't, and now that they've established their own profile format,
I'm certainly not lobbying to take this back.
Good because unlike another poster here, its probably not going to
happen no matter what kind of stink he makes here and on other forums.
That toothpaste is out of the tube. And again, the market doesn't seem
to be at all upset (just the opposite) based on those decisions.
All I'm saying is it would be nice to have a *choice*...
IF that choice doesn't kill the advantages of the original system. And
if someone can convince the company that the engineering costs and
support costs let alone the functionary is worthwhile. As yet, that
hasn't happened yet. The crux of the weakness in the argument against
proprietary profiles or the implementation of yet another profiling
system that's "open". Its unproven.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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