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Re: [Digital BW] Converting curves to ICC using DoctorPro?

2003-12-18 by Mike Finley

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:49:59 +0100, daniel wrote:

>I see that ColorVision DoctorPro can be used to save adjustments in
>Photoshop into an ICC profile. Has anyone tried this?
>
>I was thinking this could make it possible to convert the existing curve
>workflows to ICC profiles, but since you need an existing profile for
>the software to modify you would need something like a do-nothing
>profile to start with, or the curve would have to be rewritten. Is it
>possible to make profiles like that?
>
>It would be nice to use ICC profiles, then you could keep the entire
>workflow in grayscale and use any profile-aware software for printing.
>
>Does the licensing of the software allow you to redistribute the
>profiles? I couldn't find any info on this on their pages.

Nice idea, but I think the software would have trouble mapping curves
that go up, down and then back up again!

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