Re: Comparing Device Gamut with Photoshop6

[Steve Upton <upton@chromix.com>]

<x-flowed>At 9:43 AM -0400 8/7/01, CDTobie@aol.com wrote:
>
>We are saying the same thing differently, Steve...
>
>The table in a scanner profile *is* a one way escalator, and can't be used to
>get to anywhere, only from there... you can't send a file from a universal
>colorspace to a scanner profile, but since you can't print to a scanner this
>doesn't much matter for output. But this does have an effect on the round
>trip assumptions we have about a profile. So what you *can't* view is an
>AdobeRGB (never say 98 again) file as it would appear in ScannerRGB, as the
>AdobeRGB>Lab leg is available, but the Lab>ScannerRGB leg is not. You can,
>however take the escalator in the other direction, and look at that
>ScannerRGB file and see what it will look like in AdobeRGB (or more
>importantly MonitorRGB), which is what you do when you prescan an image and
>view it to make corrections before the final scan.
>

Ah!

'kay, that makes sense...

Regards,

Steve


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