Re: Color of a rose...
Re: Color of a rose...
- Subject: Re: Color of a rose...
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:39:34 -0700
At 3:21 PM -0400 6/3/09, Sean wrote:
>Hello all,
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><snip>
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>Roses are a bitch.
yep.
quick thoughts? (in no particular order)
- working space. I expect you're not using sRGB but you really should be using something big. The red you want is WAY out there (and perhaps dark). sRGB's red is VERY orange. Also desaturating reds often results in oranger-than-wanted red. ProPhoto is probably the way to go.
- display. Your monitor profile has to be built with an instrument that can measure the colors of your display properly. I didn't catch the model of the NEC you are using but if it is a larger gamut display then chances are VERY good that your colorimeter is not measuring its colors properly. If you have an i1 Pro or a ColorMunki to try for comparison it's probably worth it (spectros may not measure shadows as well but they are more likely to get the colors right).
- other images - most of the stuff on the net is going to be sRGB which means that they ALL clobbered their rose red long ago.... sniff... the carnage.
- if you have a Pantone guide that's fairly new. Find a color that's a visual match to the rose. Then lookup the color in Photoshop so you have the Lab value. Put the Lab value in a Lab document and see what you get. This will at least isolate the display part of the problem.
good luck, and keep in touch
regards,
Steve
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