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>You’re conflating the tools with user errors. Photoshop, Resolve, and Blender aren’t doing it wrong because some users do it wrong. I agree, but defaults also
by marcedwards 3y ago
>You’re conflating the tools with user errors. Photoshop, Resolve, and Blender aren’t doing it wrong because some users do it wrong.
I agree, but defaults also matter. I’d like our tools to not assume everyone’s an expert, which means the default should be to provide good results. Photoshop can definitely work with linear profiles, and the 32-bit mode is good when you need it.
- dahart 3y agoYeah, totally agree, defaults absolutely matter. And a bunch of the software @jiggawatts claimed handles gamma badly does in fact have reasonable defaults. The hard problem with images is that you need metadata, not just pixel values, and the metadata isn’t guaranteed to be there or to be accurate. It’s getting better quickly, I think, but it’s not Photoshop’s fault if the image doesn’t specify a color space or gamma, and not Photoshop’s fault if someone applies gamma first and then does a blur or paints a mask and then the blending isn’t what they expected.
- marcedwards 3y agoYep, yep, yep. Getting better quickly, but regressions are common, too. (QuickLook on macOS hasn’t shown correct colours for a while now. FB12602125 and FB13475690 if anyone from Apple is reading this and wants to take a look!)