Re: Silly question department, Display Media White Point
Re: Silly question department, Display Media White Point
- Subject: Re: Silly question department, Display Media White Point
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:28:31 -0700
> On Feb 25, 2015, at 1:12 PM, John Lund <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> So why should it be acceptable that this is still the *default* CMYK space for Photoshop (North America installs)?
Because there are still shops that conform to it for one. Unless you have data that TR001 is completely extinct.
If you're outside North America with a shiny new copy of Photoshop, you're probably not going to use North America Presets right? You'll have to alter them. Again BFD. No default is correct 100% of the time for color.
> Since it continues in Adobe products, it is also the default for RIP vendors, printing houses that run inkjet/solvent printers, and all sorts of places that output on devices that bear almost no relation to "SWOP".
So their uneducated understading of color and a complext app like Photoshop is who's falut other than their own?
The bottom line is, for proper output, you have to select the proper profile. You can leave the PS defaults for CMYK as is and never need to worry about them by simply using Convert to Profile and picking the CORRECT profile there and making your conversion. I'm kind of surprised people in these parts would even consider these defaults; they force a Rendering Intent on all conversion. At least Convert to Profile gives you the opportunity to pick ANY profile, a RI, and soft proof all at once. Forget the CMYK defaults in the Color Settings or be smart and set them for the correct output should someone hold a gun to your head and make you use Mode Change in PS. Oh, you're printing to G7 and TR001? Now you have to pay attention and fix this in the color settings correctly or you're in a world of hurt.
Mode Change> CMYK in Photoshop is really for the person who isn't using PS to it's fullest. It can only have one default and one setting. If you ignore picking the right profile for conversions, you deserve the color you get.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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