Dear Mike
In my original post I acknowledged the efforts on Colour Management. However I think there is a lot more that can go wrong with a file than CM and I think it is the other issues which are making files unusable rather than CM.
In the 'good old days' photographers on local newspapers did 10x8 glossies which were usually of a reasonably acceptable quality. Not only newspaper offices, but also libraries and historic archives, stored thousands of prints which could be readily researched and reused many years later in books. You only have to look at pictures in the local press to see digital files which are badly over sharpened even for small size repro. If the only surviving copy is a messed with USM file it will be useless for any better quality future use. The colour management could be perfect but its usefulness in 50 - 100 years time would be zero. Conversely, if the CM is way out it can probably be corrected to within acceptable levels if the actual file is big enough, unsharpened and not ruined by noise and artifacts.
Bob Croxford
On 1 Aug 2004, at 22:30, Mike Russell wrote:
It's a sensitive area, because one never wants to make one's clients feel inadequate, however when I feel they're receptive (but floundering) I've often passed on Thomas Holm's excellent primer here:
http://www.pixl.dk/downloads/CMS_theory_setup_2_0.pdf
It's a little out of date as it seems to assume OS9 (but then lots of designers still seem to have that) but often seems to result in some improvement in opening and handling files.
Mike
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