Re: 10.8.3 Finder Colour Management
Re: 10.8.3 Finder Colour Management
- Subject: Re: 10.8.3 Finder Colour Management
- From: Terence Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:04:16 -0400
Figured something like...assigning the monitor profile to the UI.
I'll ask a stupid question: What does it matter if the UI elements glow-in-the-dark or give you a sun tan as long as *color-managed* applications behave as they should?
Terry
On Mar 21, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2013, at 14:38, Andrew Rodney <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I'm running 10.8.3 on a MacBook, lid closed, driving a SpectraView PA271.
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> Hmmm, I think I've worked out what's happening here.
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> The Finder and Dock are using the monitor profile as the default RGB colour space!
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> The wider the monitor gamut the greater the discrepancy between the colours that you're used to working with in a colour managed workflow and the crazy colours that are displayed in the Finder in 10.8.
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> If you use the 10.8 Digital Color Meter utility and set it to return AdobeRGB colour values then you get clipping warnings popping up everywhere.
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> I checked the 10.6 display profiles for the PA271W and they are similar to those we've created in 10.8 versions -- but the 10.6 Finder doesn't have radioactive icons so must assign a smaller RGB colour profile to the icons.
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> Apple are making it very difficult for professional colour work at the moment -- we have NO Mac Pros in Europe at the moment and a badly colour managed OS that is very difficult to use for colour critical work…
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> [I also discovered yesterday that Epson's SpectroProofer Utility no longer works properly in 10.8.3 either]
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> Windoze beckons :(
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> --
> Martin Orpen
> Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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