Horses MatchLock Doctor Pro -- Ain't no horsin' around!

[Dan Culbertson <danculb@concentric.net>]

Hi all,
Been working with Horses MatchLock Doctor Pro.  In case you don't know what
it is it is a profile editor that lets you use *any* Photoshop color
editing tool (and many other tools) from *within Photoshop* to edit
profiles with a full real time preview of the edits.  The way it works is
you make an action on a file that records all of the devious distortions
you would also like to perpetrate upon the profile and force it to do.
Then you select the profile in Doctor Pro and it plays the action and edits
your profile.  Man does this baby do stuff!!!  On Tyler Boley's suggestion
I used my quadtone channel separations action and the CMYK to RGB(K) action
within Doctor Pro on an RGB profile and it changed the profile into one
that actually converts a grayscale file from grayscale directly into false
color RGB and assigns the false color to the tonal regions I selected with
my action settings. In other words it converts my tedious multi-step manual
CMYK quad separations process *and* my special conversion to RGB for
printing  method into a single Profile to Profile process!!!  Neat!

I haven't got the profile just to my liking yet (and there will probably
have to be a number made for different image types) but the concept works
at least to an extent!  I did have to change a few things in the Action
that Doctor Pro just wouldn't swallow but that was minor Action editing.
Considering my process involves starting with a grayscale file, converting
it into four identical CMYK channels, manually partitioning the channels
with curves and channel mixer adjustments, fading edits, and even (now) an
"Apply Image" command (how many of you even know what that is??) I am
vastly impressed that Doctor P kept up with it!  This horse has a *ton* of
potential. I haven't yet figured out just what it won't force a profile to
do!  Will it do sharpening, etc?  Good Golly, you might could turn your
entire basic editing routine into a single Profile to Profile command!

Lots of fun here finding out!

Dan Culbertson




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