RE: The color of gray
RE: The color of gray
- Subject: RE: The color of gray
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:53:08 -0400
Hi Peter,
You wondered :
> What I don't understand is WHY the grays print with an identical hues.
> If the white points of the two color space are D50 and D65 then surely the gray axis of those color spaces won't have the same hue relative
> to each other? So what, exactly is being "absolutely rendered" when I ask photoshop to print absolute colorimetric? What am I missing?
The answer to this question comes from Florian Höch who, yesterday, kindly wrote back the following which, I'll admit, at first glance, is hard to wrap one's head around :
> ... because around a decade ago Adobe decided they would no longer support absolute colorimetric for RGB display profiles
> (you can select it, but it'll use relative colorimetric behind your back).
See?
I think that this "Rendering style" has even officially been made part of the ICC specs in v4? (Was that was Graeme Gill complain was about in his multiple objections on change in the Media White Point between v2 and v4 specs?)
Personally, I never agreed with this change for there was nothing I liked more to demonstrate the concept of color temperature than fire up an Absolute Colorimetric conversion in Photoshop from, say, sRGB =255,255,255 to Lab. That was one hell of an eye opener. But, we all know the vast pool of uninformed Photoshop's users have so much power on Adobe that, in order to keep peace, Photoshop's team threw the towel and came up with the present behavior. I personally regret this change.
It is true that, to some extent, in the wrong hands, color management is like a loaded gun.
Best / Roger
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