[argyllcms] Re: Profile input white not mapping to output white
- From: Iliah Borg <ib@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:42:09 -0500
Dear Ben,
Have you tried RawDigger on the raw file to be sure all the four raw channels
are clipped on the white? If you can upload or email me the raw file I will try
to see what is going on.
On Nov 22, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Ben Goren wrote:
> First, happy Thanksgiving to all!
>
> I'm photographing some artwork against a white seamless background, and
> intentionally overexposing the background to force it to pure white, while
> keeping the artwork within the exposure range of the camera. I'm shooting a
> target in the scene, linearly processing it with RAW Developer (after setting
> white balance, of course), and then doing the standard crop / chartread /
> colprof / etc. to create a profile.
>
> Here's a thumbnail of the overall scene (with linear development):
>
>
> <706C8559.jpg>
>
>
> Here's the image after applying the profile (created with no options given to
> colprof):
>
>
> <706C8559-profiled.jpg>
>
> Except for the pale green background, I'm happy with the results.
>
> If I use -u, the background remains less than pure white, but the tint is
> very much reduced (though the lightness remains about the same). I can mask
> it out reasonably enough in Photoshop, but that's obviously undesirable.
>
> If I create a profile with -ag, the background is pure white, but both by the
> numbers and by eyeballing it the quality is much diminished. If I use -as,
> the results are somewhere between the two, both in terms of a not-white
> background and quality otherwise. With -ax, the numbers are marginally closer
> but there's severe posterization.
>
> I'm attaching a Zip file with what I hope are enough relevant files to
> reproduce what I'm doing, less the 27 Mbyte RAW file. I can, of course,
> supply that as well. In its place, I'm including a 50% scaled JPEG at 50
> quality, which I hope should be "good enough."
>
> Any and all help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> b&
>
> <help.zip>
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Iliah Borg
ib@xxxxxxxxxxx
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