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I’m not a photographer, nor a creative expert, but my understanding is that colour work is one place that that MacOS actually excels, fundamentally, at at the o

I’m not a photographer, nor a creative expert, but my understanding is that colour work is one place that that MacOS actually excels, fundamentally, at at the operating system level. It’s able to handle colour profiles correctly on a per app basis, rather than per display. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2313/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2313...

pathartl 4y ago
I only know a bit about color profiling, but I don't understand why you'd want a color profile on a per app basis? I see it for device-level... like a printer would have a profile, a camera would have a differently calibrated one, and multiple monitors with different color profiles to make sure they're uniform. I mean if they have that feature and it's used for something big I'm not privy to, cool, but otherwise it's something that most large OS's handle.
- jackpeterfletch 4y ago
  Again only going on off hand knowledge. But colour is one of those things that seems straightforward to begin with, and soon becomes insanely complex as you start peeling the layers back XD. Different files, applications, media can be encoded in different colour spaces, as can different displays, printers, dyeing processes take them as inputs - and the conversion isn't always straight forward. For most consumption activities this doesn't matter, but if you work in colour and your job is to make sure that that signiture 'Pepsi Blue' is consistent in print media, television advert, merchandise, and the product, some finer treatment of them in the OS becomes necessary. To iterate - not a colour expert, but I just thought I'd politely enlighten you as why macOS is so highly regarded for this kind of work, it isn't just marketing. Though no doubt, there is plenty of that too.

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I’m not a photographer, nor a creative expert, but my understanding is that colour work is one place that that MacOS actually excels, fundamentally, at at the o

by jackpeterfletch 4y ago

pathartl 4y ago
I only know a bit about color profiling, but I don't understand why you'd want a color profile on a per app basis? I see it for device-level... like a printer would have a profile, a camera would have a differently calibrated one, and multiple monitors with different color profiles to make sure they're uniform. I mean if they have that feature and it's used for something big I'm not privy to, cool, but otherwise it's something that most large OS's handle.
- jackpeterfletch 4y ago
  Again only going on off hand knowledge. But colour is one of those things that seems straightforward to begin with, and soon becomes insanely complex as you start peeling the layers back XD. Different files, applications, media can be encoded in different colour spaces, as can different displays, printers, dyeing processes take them as inputs - and the conversion isn't always straight forward. For most consumption activities this doesn't matter, but if you work in colour and your job is to make sure that that signiture 'Pepsi Blue' is consistent in print media, television advert, merchandise, and the product, some finer treatment of them in the OS becomes necessary. To iterate - not a colour expert, but I just thought I'd politely enlighten you as why macOS is so highly regarded for this kind of work, it isn't just marketing. Though no doubt, there is plenty of that too.