Hi Ben,
thanks for your response to my query.
I am afraid I know not enough yet to fully understand how I have to proceed
to get a complete understanding of Argyll and its applications.
The books I have read about colour management treat only the basics. The
ICC-specification is too complicated for my current level of knowledge.
Isn't there literature available at an intermediate level, which will --
after careful study -- enable me to fully understand the potential of
Argyll?
Nevertheless, the colours I get using the Argyll profiles -- created in an
almost default setting -- are much better than any other profiles I have
seen. This is the reason I would like to understand it completely with all
of its applications.
Best wishes
Hermann-Josef
--- Begin Message ---On Nov 16, 2017, at 8:22 AM, Hermann-Josef Röser
- From: "Ben Goren" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:09:25 +0100
<posts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I do not really understand what I
have to do to make use of the different rendering intents.
For what it's worth, I've found that it's least insane to use Argyll, and only
Argyll, for any and all color transformations.
Many color workflows will describe using a tool such as Argyll to create a
profile and then install that profile somewhere for various other tools to use
-- your camera raw developer, your image editing suite, your printer driver,
and so on.
That can work, and is probably best for large environments with IT teams that
can set everything up for the art teams so stuff "just works."
But if you're doing it yourself, you'll not only have more transparency into
the process but get better results if you use Argyll to do all the transforms.
So, for example, you'd develop your camera's files in a manner that includes no
color transformations other than linear per-channel scaling (aka "white
balance"). You'd use Argyll to translate that to your preferred working space
and do with it as you will in your image editor. The end result of that is
still in your preferred working space; you'd use Argyll to translate that to
your printer's space, and print the result as if it were a profiling target,
with no further transforms. At every step, you have full control over all
parameters, and it's instantly obvious what (if anything) you need to change.
Hope this helps....
Cheers,
b&
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