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Re: [Digital BW] Re: LAB Step Wedge -- a grayscape Lab space

2004-12-08 by Steve Kale

Ah sorry I made a stupid mistake.  I missed it on the list and was trying to
load it twice!


> From: Carl Schofield <scho@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:11:53 -0500
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: LAB Step Wedge -- a grayscape Lab space
> 
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Put the icm file in your user>Library>Colorsync>Profiles folder.  I had
> no problem setting the gray space to this icm - it should appear in the
> PS Color Settings gray pop-up list with all of the other profile
> choices.
> 
> Carl
> 
> On Dec 8, 2004, at 8:59 AM, Steve Kale wrote:
> 
>> 
>> PS won't recognize the .icm file and won't allow me to select it when
>> I try
>> load it.... Maybe I should try downloading it again.
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Roy Harrington <roy@...>
>>> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:47:24 -0000
>>> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: LAB Step Wedge -- a grayscape Lab space
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Steve,
>>> 
>>> Sorry about the confusion.  What Daniel posted was a wedge in Lab
>>> space, i.e.
>>> a 3 channel file with L, a, and b channels.
>>> 
>>> What I've got is a completely new color space (or maybe more
>>> accurately a new
>>> Gray space).   It's a single channel that is just the L channel.
>>> Since its a
>>> single
>>> channel it can be used with grayscale images.
>>> 
>>> The idea, inspired by you, is to use the same flavor of space
>>> thoughtout --
>>> use
>>> a Lab-like space as the editting space as well as the print space.
>>> 
>>> From the .zip file you should get a .icm file.  You can load this as
>>> the
>>> Working
>>> Gray Space in Photoshop.  So in "Color Settings"  for Gray Space you
>>> can
>>> Load this file and use it as your working space. Alternatively you
>>> can use it
>>> as a
>>> proofing space.   You can also Assign the profile to your grayscale
>>> files --
>>> they
>>> will inherently display just as they print with QTR -- builtin
>>> proofing!
>>> 
>>> Roy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
>>> <stevekale@b...>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Roy
>>>> 
>>>> Ok now you are confusing me.  First of all, Load Gray won't let me
>>>> select
>>>> the extracted file.  Secondly Daniel posted a 21 step wedge in LAB
>>>> ie each
>>>> step represented a 5% change in L from 0 to 100 (Paul also sent me
>>>> one
>>>> directly).  I can leave my grey space the same (gamma 2.2) and few
>>>> the LAB
>>>> step wedge (colorsync manages this for me) and the eyedropper gives
>>>> me the
>>>> right LAB readings.  It is the image file that needs the right LAB
>>>> pixel
>>>> values.
>>>> 
>>>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
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