Re: Screensharing with colormanagement
Re: Screensharing with colormanagement
- Subject: Re: Screensharing with colormanagement
- From: Ben Goren <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:30:06 -0700
On Jun 9, 2016, at 7:09 PM, Mark Stegman <email@hidden> wrote:
> Ben implies the viewing environment has to be the most difficult to predict and control and I would agree. The technical limtations of 'affordable' lighting may be a factor but convincing the affected parties that it is a worhtwhile investment along with other contributors to the ambient viewing conditions is probably the biggest obstacle.
There is, of course, another perspective, one that I try to encourage...and that is to recognize the futility inherent in the quest.
That's not to suggest giving up, of course, or that standards should be excessively loosened or what-not.
It _is,_ however, my suggestion that you should always start by considering what the end product actually is and how it will be viewed. Magazines, for example, are mostly viewed in living rooms and doctor's offices. If a magazine photo looks great in an editorial photo booth but looks horrid in typical office lighting, that's a problem -- and I've seen some big-name magazines whose pictures were far too dark for the living room and which only came to life in direct sunlight.
Straight-up reprographic work is difficult but straightforward; it's very reasonable to expect to be able to put the original and copy side-by-side and have them look the same, with a couple minor footnotes.
And if you have source and destination viewing environments, things are also straightforward. For example, you might get a spectrographic measurement of the ambient light in an artist's studio and a museum gallery and make a copy that very faithfully reproduces the "look" that the artist saw, even if the museum's lighting is quite different.
But if you want to make a general-purpose print that looks good anywhere and everywhere...well, the _original_ isn't going to look good anywhere and everywhere, so why should you expect the copy to be any better?
Cheers,
b&
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