Re: Display Profile Gamut Compression
Re: Display Profile Gamut Compression
- Subject: Re: Display Profile Gamut Compression
- From: "J.Raimar Kuhnen-Burger" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:14:25 +0100
- Thread-topic: Display Profile Gamut Compression
Hi,
Quato´s iColor Display does also drives the DTP94/DTP94b. You can tweak the
perceptive intent within the software, too. But I´m not sure if this has the
same effect as with the old monacooptix software.
Bye
Raimar
am 11.02.11 19:47 schrieb david wollmann unter email@hidden:
> I'm looking for some new software to drive my MonacoOptix XR Pro
> (DTP94) colorimeter. Besides Color Eyes Display Pro and BasICColor
> Display 4 are there other choices?
>
> Also I'm trying to reconcile the Gamut Compression feature that
> MonacoOptix allows one to invoke and the lack of Gamut Compression
> controls with newer software. Has that feature fallen out of favor?
>
> MonacoOptix lets me build a profile on my Apple LCD using a default
> gamut compression setting of 60 percent. With this setting I can see a
> difference between a fully saturated synthetic ProPhoto blue of 0 0
> 255 and say another blue patch of 60 0 255. Plus I can see the
> differences between the fully saturated Adobe RGB primaries and
> ProPhoto fully saturated primaries. (Take swatches of the Adobe
> primaries and convert them to ProPhoto using relative and compare to
> swatches made in ProPhoto)
>
> When I select a new ICC display profile built with new software I
> loose all definition in my saturated primaries. If I try to use the
> Photoshop feature "Desaturate Monitor Colors by X percent" the effect
> is not the same as I'm seeing with my trusty MonacoOptix profile.
> Photoshop is much flatter and washed out as if it was screened.
>
> In short I really like the display profiles MonacoOptix builds for me
> but the software is out of date for the newest systems.
>
> I have also tried using the Eye-One Display 2 puck and Eye-One Match
> software but the results are the same, a lack of definition in fully
> saturated primaries. The new software and hardware I've mentioned,
> they build nice profiles, its just that with my old software I feel
> I'm getting a better or more versatile profile.
>
> Thank you for your thoughts,
> David Wollmann
>
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