Re: Epson canned profiles
Re: Epson canned profiles
- Subject: Re: Epson canned profiles
- From: John Lund <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:11:54 -0700
Thank you for this contribution, Walker. A nice break from the preening &
shouting …er, discussion I mean.
I’ll try not to resent your criminal behavior in buttering your toast upside
down. ;-)
John
P.S. Toast - what a perfect device for this list! Were you remembering Steve
Upton’s famous toast metaphor for the problem of color reproduction?
> On Apr 17, 2018, at 6:03 AM, email@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:02:07 -0400
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> Whenever I see flamewars like this on ColorSync forum I’m tempted to post
> this little cartoon: theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
> <http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe>
>
> Hopefully it calms people down a little.
>
> For some people (and their business) minuscule dEs are a real problem. For
> other people and their business it’s no problem at all. It’s just a matter of
> what world one inhabits. If you inhabit the "dE differences of .85 at the
> 6ish L value level make no difference”-world then it does not discount all
> the people who that would make a huge difference to. Same goes in reverse.
> Because I butter my toast upside down doesn’t make people who butter their
> toast right-side up wrong.
>
> This forum is generally comprised of many people who have dedicated a very
> long time to perfecting their world and defining the world of color
> management and control. I would say a lot of the people who post on this
> forum are people from the “minuscule dEs are bad” mindset. I include myself
> in that. But it’s important to remember that people have different contexts.
>
> My personal experience is this: After I made my first good custom profile for
> Epson I never went back to canned profiles. It changed my context and
> refined/raised my expectations. But before that first custom profile, I
> really was just fine with the canned because my frame of reference was just
> different before.
>
> All the best,
> Walker
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