On Jun 6, 2014, at 4:53 PM, John Robert Robinson <jrswebhome@yahoo.com> wrote:
Excluding print media, if no one viewing your calibration work is calibrated, what value is your calibration?
I already addressed that. The display industry has, for the most part, adopted sRGB as something of a standard, and, mostly, new devices are and for some time have been factory calibrated to within shouting distance of sRGB. Therefore, if your own workflow is color managed, if you output your files as sRGB you'll be targeting results that roughly fall in line with what most devices mostly will display. If, on the other hand, your workflow is *not* color managed, then you'll be "baking" your deviation from standard into all your work. For example, if your display has an excessively high white point color temperature and your ambient light is incandescent, you may well overcompensate by making things yellower and redder than you otherwise would, and the majority of your viewers will wonder why your pictures have a "vintage" faded look to them. Will your images look perfect on all devices if you adopt an ideal managed workflow? No, of course not. As I mentioned, even _National_Geographic_ looks bad in dim incandescent light, and equally bad in cheap incandescent light. But they still carefully target the standards (which are, not coincidentally, a close proxy for daylight) and that's a big part of the reason why their reputation is what it deservedly is. Cheers, b&