[argyllcms] Re: Profiling between two images
- From: Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:04:41 +0100
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Gerhard Fuernkranz <nospam456@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
>> The gamma doesn't cut it... The shaper is a quite important part of the
>> profiles
>> in question.
>
> Yes, I see, obviously the camera applies an S-shaped TRC.
>
>> I never expected exact results, with regards to my camera (or DPP)
>> processing.
>>
>> I have attached a .ti3 file, which gives completely different shaper
>> when executed
>> like:
>>
>> colprof -qu -aS
>>
>> Than when it's executed like:
>>
>> colprof -qh -aS
>> colprof -qm -aS
>> colprof -ql -aS
>>
>> In all four cases the matrix seems nearly identical.
>
> I did take a look at your data now.
>
> Colprof -qh -aS bails out with "Powell failed" (no profile was
> generated). Obviously the optimization did not converge... [You did not
> encounter this problem, did you?]
>
> The options -qm and -qu resulted in shapers which do not differ very
> much (see the green and blue curves in the attached diagram). They look
> pretty reasonable up to the target's Dmin (about RGB=230...235).
> However, the extrapolation beyond Dmin up to RGB=255 (i.e. the very
> steep ascent) does not look reasonable at all. I'm also not sure whether
> the profile might possibly clip some shadows. I would actually not call
> these -qm and -qu shapers bumpy, IMO they are reasonably smooth.
>
> Option -ql gives indeed a different (less reasonable) shape. I guess the
> -ql curve [which have fewer degrees of freedom than the -q m/h/u curves]
> is not "flexible" enough to fit the given data, but on the other hand I
> find it more bumpy than the -qm -and -qu curves (which is rather a
> contradiction).
I noticed LCMS has a Gamma Smoothing method called cmsSmoothGamma,
to forcibly smooth gamma curves, after normal processing.
I'd love to see a similar feature in colprof, where gamma curves can be
forcibly smoothed.
Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn
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