On Jan 9, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Wire ~ via colorsync-users <colorsync-users@lists.apple.com> wrote:
So the reason I am even here — and I recently submitted my first post in about 15 years, since back in the day when fine-art Inkjet printing was all the rage and I found this list from reading the epson-inkjet forum, where the lovely Bruce Fraser was always on hand to clarify things for newbies and throw-down with the heavies — is because when I fired up my old DTP94 after a decade of being away from photography, I found that my copy ColorEyes Display Pro was dead and gone forever due to software version creep and changing tides in the industry. I went looking for an alternative and quickly came across DisplayCal. THERE IS A GOD! Suddenly I was back into building display profiles and sorting through the mysteries of system alignment, wondering what had changed in so many years, and noticing video and phones are now the hot topic in color, giving rise to new display standards. WCG displays are becoming common, and creating common pitfalls. As an aside, I am surprised to find that for all its promise, ICC CM is as much of a can'o worms as ever, even more so. And getting worse, with the evolution of UHD TV. And it's the most vertically integrated company, Apple, that's able to slip a new bigger gamut display standard into the market in a way that doesn't cause ordinary users total mayhem. Wasn't Colorsync supposed to be about the democratization of great color?!
As I worked with DisplayCal, I discovered my late-model MacOS was doing something strange: Its color management was producing different display black-patch rendering depending on whether I was using built-in Preview, or Quicklook, or Adobe Photoshop, and Apple's programs will sometimes get it obviously wrong. So happens I was playing with DisplayCal's XYZ LUT capability and the DisplayCal and other forums were abuzz with concern about how Apple could get it wrong and what can be done. Florian reported that it was becoming common knowledge that Apple SW can't handle XYZ LUT profiles and I asked if he had checked in over at the colorsync-users list from back in the day — I suggested to him those guys ought to know what's going on and have some traction with Apple. He said he was on the list, but threw up his hands.
Mac has as bad a reputation as Windows these days, and if I were a new creative generation is looking towards progress, I would look towards Linux, where the skilled user has the more freedom and look forward to the sort of fun and promise that used to be celebrated on Mac in days of yore. Those days are gone, of course.
I decided to come over here and ask what's going on. So I wrote up my crude explanation of what I was seeing and posted it here, and found dead silence. Not even Rodney showed up to tell me what an idiot I am for posted such uninformed airheaded observations!
Tempting. But the last group of posts you were involved with is enough to know, I'm not going to assist you in digging more (crude by admission), holes. You're on your own bud. Andrew Rodney http://www.digitaldog.net/ <http://www.digitaldog.net/>