Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
- Subject: Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:32:06 +0200
Am 07.09.2008 um 19:03 schrieb Andrew Rodney:
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.
Agreed.
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.
Yes, I see the advantage of this route. It's just that I trusted the
smartness of Adobe engineers to come up with a solution just as good
even for standard ICC profiles (hard as this may be). ;-)
Adobe has an interest in ensuring their customers have the
necessarily solutions to make their products competitive.
Of course. But Adobe's interests are not necessarily identical to
those of everyone else. :-) Since I'm not Adobe, I'm arguing for *my*
interests. :-) I don't say that I don't understand why Adobe did what
they did. I just regret it.
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!
Yes. But since the complete package now only costs as much as an i1
Pro and the CMYK printer module cost before, you basically get the
rest for free, so to say.
And you specifically mentioned ProfileMaker Pro which is thousands
of dollars. So PMP and Match in your tests produced identical
results with identical functionality?
Interestingly, yes (as far as the results are concerned). i1 Match and
ProfileMaker seem to use (almost?) exactly the same engine; even
peculiarities were identical between the two packages.
Of course, ProfileMaker offers things like Device Link profiles that
i1 Match does not offer at all, due to its modularity allows more
tweaking and more insight into the processing, and offers more
parameters to tweak. But if you stick to default settings, as I
usually did in my tests, the results are basically identical in all
cases. (Sometimes the defaults are even better in i1 Match).
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.
But the decision pro/con an Adobe product does not depend on profiling
alone. It might well be the case that otherwise convinced Lightroom
users would still enjoy an ICC profiling option (or a metrologically
enhanced profile editor).
Bye
Uli
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