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Cold, hard reality sets in...

Started Jul 9, 2001 | Discussions thread
MikeA Senior Member • Posts: 2,236
Re: Cold, hard reality sets in...

Steve Dean wrote:

Photoshop can convert from one colorspace to another. It is like
translating Spanish to English. The problem comes in that Minolta
has invented a new language. They haven't explained the new
language to anyone else yet, including Adobe. Therefore, no one
else knows how to interpret it into a known colorspace such as
Adobe RGB 1998, sRGB, NTSC 1953, etc. Given a bit of time, someone
will be able to decipher the color gamut and accurately do the
conversion.

For accuracy's sake I should have mentioned that the fellow who brought this up -- about using Photoshop instead of Minolta's software -- mentioned that he never assigns color profiles while he's working on the images within Photoshop; he assigns profiles only at print-time. In my ignorant (yet strangely non-blissful) state, I failed to ask him how it is he doesn't then perceive colors incorrectly on_the_screen while he's working with the images and before he's ready to print them. (For all I know, that's also an ignorant question...)

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