Christiane Ulbricht wrote:
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I know that windows doesn’t use color profiles,
Later versions of windows, including Win2K and XP, do use color profiles. An active profile may be assigned to your monitor, and non color aware apps will display using that monitor. In practice, providing an sRGB image will get you very close indeed.
but I thought that
converting the image to the monitor’s color space (and thus to the monitor’s RGB values?) should result in an image that looks the same in both photoshop and other applicaitons.
Yes, in earlier versions of windows, or in later versions that have no active monitor profile. or a as mentioned, profile that does not differ significantly from the sRGB color space.
I want to scan a piece of cloth and display it on one specific monitor in an application that doesn’t use color management. There must be a way that the colors at least look somewhat the same, isn’t it? (I generated ICC profiles for any input and output device)
Yes, and that way is almost certainly to provide an sRGB image.
Presently, the colors differ significantly, also in photoshop! Converting to sRGB makes it even worse.
I’m surprised at this, and suspect that your monitor profile may be unusual in some way. I would sugest that you disable your monitor profile, and also look at your image on a variety of systems before deciding on whether to go with your monitor space or sRGB. Profiling your monitor can be like getting tatooed, with the additional ironic twist that others also be tatooed in order to understand you.
Of course, the color space of
the monitor is much smaller than the one of the scanner, but shouldn’t it work at least for colors that are inside the monitor gamut?
The monitor’s color space is probably larger than the scanner’s, particularly since you are scanning reflective material. Also keep in mind that the light source of the scanner is a factor, and any unusual dyes in the material may create unpredictable results.
Having said all that, if your results with converting to your monitor profile are giving you empirically the best results, don’t let anything we say here dissuade you. As you can see, there are a multitude of voices, and they do not always agree with one another.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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