Re: Color Management

From: Bob Savage (bsavage@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 15:39:49 CDT

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Date:         Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:39:49 -0700
From: Bob Savage <mailto:bsavage@STANFORD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Color Management
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    <pre> on 4/12/00 1:05 PM, Eileen Mathias wrote:

    > I have a question about color management, which I notice has come up recently
    > in a few responses to other questions. I have been relunctant to embed ICC
    > profiles in the TIFF header of an image file, which is an option with the
    > PhaseOne software that comes with the PowerPhase camera, for fear that
    > software 10 years from now may not understand the embedded profile. What I
    > have chosen to do instead is burn a copy of the ICC profile to each CD of
    > archived images, with instructions to apply that profile when manipulation
    > images in PhotoShop, for example. Does this make sense? What are other
    > people doing?
    >

    We have been burning two versions, one an archival version with no compression, a colorbar/greyscale/ruler is included in each scan, with the
    (unembedded) ICC profile (and a Q60 thrown in as well) burned on each disc. We also create a second file with the profile embedded which gets burned to a service copy disc. It seems practical to provide the files because Photoshop will use an embedded profile if one exists, but will
    *automatically apply another (default) profile* otherwise (unless the user has set up PS to alert them to mismatches). It just seems that this makes it more likely that the ICC profile will actually be used. :) 

    --
Bob Savage
Media Preservation Unit
Stanford University Libraries
mailto:bsavage@stanford.edu

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