Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 599 from 2004/11/27
MarK,
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well, afaik, the idea is to see on the monitor, how it should look like printed
no I don't think so, one should see on the screen how the picture really looks! That's why cameras and monitors use sRGB icc and then for printing a printer icc which needs to "transform" the colors to suit the printer and medium, so that the printed image looks like what you see on the screen.
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the color calibration is very difficult topic, and depends on used colors
there is nothing difficult with calibration, other's, the icc consortium, did the thinking and work for us user's, it just needs the support for such in MorphOS
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also depends on back light, colors differs, when it's on direct sunlight, on shadow, on artificial light...
yes viewing conditions do influence how a picture is seen by the user but it's up to the user to setup this condition to best suit the viewing, no direct sunlight, neutral room colors, etc.
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sRGB itself doesn't solve anything, when you print with CMYK... because CMYK has never as large gamut as any RGB colours...
that sRGB doesn't solve anything seems to me as a false information! Of corse it does, as it does calibrate a picture so that it is seen by a user on the screen how it was taken with the camera, if the monitor has build-in sRGB calibration capabilities. It is correct that cmyk does not have a large gamut as rgb but this doen't matter if, icc can be used for printing, as it will a kind of transform the picture, so that it prints as close as possible to what one sees on the screen.
All in all, we normal user's, do not to be sicentist's but can leave this to the icc consortium and just can use their results of development and view and print very high fidelity and quality pictures when using icc.
Regards
Christoph
