Re: Do I need to upgrade to i1Profiler?
Re: Do I need to upgrade to i1Profiler?
- Subject: Re: Do I need to upgrade to i1Profiler?
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:06:05 -0600
On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Ethan Hansen wrote:
> then intentionally screwed up
> the K-linearization on an Epson 7890 and repeated Andrew's experiment. This
> time the smoothness slider did something. There was more of a visual
> discontinuity in prints made with "smoothness" set to 0 than 100.
My beef isn’t that the slider doesn’t work (in any or all situations), my beef is having a granularity of 100 values is just silly! It makes no sense.
If you have any kind of slider, one would assume that every tick mark would do something. With a slider of 0-100, one should expect a value of 1, 2, 3 or even 1, 5, 10 would produce some results one can see or analyze. I think based on the behavior here, the slider could have a scale of 1-10 (maybe). So the question is, why did X-Rite design this (and other) sliders as they did? What’s a user supposed to try when testing these sliders?
Someone inside X-Rite made the conscious decision to make sliders with fixed scales, based on my testing (and reading about Ethan’s), my take is, the design here is half baked. This is not the only area within the software that behaves this way.
> Given that
> difference, X-Rite's choice to make an adjustment slider with 100 increments
> is a curious one.
Exactly! It just confused end users.
> After all the development time, i1Profiler still comes across as a Beta
> product.
Yup, I’m on board with that analysis. Hopefully a dot release will follow soon. But will that fix the overall design decisions that are at best questionalbe? I hope X-Rite decides to fix these issues as well. Or provide some data points that prove that the design and architecture is useful. Fix the sliders. Make the optimization useful.
Andrew Rodney
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