Re: Color accurate workflows (was in search of a D50 Editing colorspace)
Re: Color accurate workflows (was in search of a D50 Editing colorspace)
- Subject: Re: Color accurate workflows (was in search of a D50 Editing colorspace)
- From: edward taffel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:41:50 -0400
On Sep 9, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Andrew Rodney <email@hidden> wrote:
> The values are samples (you control the averaging) under the cursor yes. But with Photoshop they are converted to the color space of the document's tagged profile unlike the Color Meter(s).
yes i follow, but this is just a sample from the display’s rgb & converted back to the original space; whereas, if exact rgb or lab coordinates (from a potentially much wider gamut source) for the pixel under examination are desired, it is necessary to map to the corresponding point in the image data to get serviceable data—this is what i meant.
> Here's a visual example of how those products get the numbers wrong unless you are using sRGB (and setting the meters as such).
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> http://www.digitaldog.net/files/DigitalColorMeter.jpg
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> This one is really way off even with sRGB and you have to love the -0 number:
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> http://digitaldog.net/files/DigitalColorMeter_sRGB.jpg
many thanks & viewed w/ great interest.
edward
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