>someone who has never given CM a moment's thought, and who blames me
>or Windows, or digital in general, out of religious faith. There are a very
>large proportion of such people in UK magazine design, who'll click on
>'don't convert' without having the faintest idea what it means.
Thats because as you say they see it as a religious thing and object to
converting on principle. :-)
I would just like to know how this was polled and who did it so as to have
definitive empirical scientific evidence that it is "the first choice of
graphic professionals worldwide" or is this just more hyperbole? Besides
just who is included and excluded from the category of "graphic
professional?" Is it the head of a graphics division who gets paid to head
full time that division but has never received any training in graphic arts
or photography, has never actually done a layout or graphic design
themselves, has never actually created an image photographically or
otherwise, etc.? Or is it the peon who works as an accountant and has had
grahics training but gets paid as a full time accountant and happens on
their opwn free time to design, layout, and provide images for the company
newsletter? Maybe, it is the third world artist who paints or draws images
on parchment and canvas or weaves them into rugs but never touches a
computer in doing their actual work of producing images and graphic arts
that someone else steals and prints or sell rights to?
-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:32 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Get a Mac...Digital Darkroom Computer
On Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:11:40 +0100 Richard Walsh (soho@eircom.net) wrote:
> I think you'll find that the Mac handles colour very differently from a
> PC,
> making it the first choice of graphic professionals worldwide.
If you are talking about Colour Management, yes, that is an area that Macs
are better sorted because it is properly integrated. With Win it's a vile
lash-up where non ICM-aware apps are concerned, but then naive users won't
know or care anyhow.
To do it properly on a Windows machine requires only that you use apps
which are ICM aware and have a clue about what you are doing. But that is
all, and it's probably no bad thing. Since the machine is dumb and daft
and has to be explicitly told what to do, if it doesn't work right it's
nobody's fault but mine.
The great advantage for 'graphics professionals worldwide' is that they
don't have to have the same arcane knowledge of the OS, computer and CM in
order to use the system. Some would argue this makes them more productive.
The downside is tolerance of ignorance : this blind trust in the superior
and intuitive Mac enables some of those alleged 'graphics professionals' to
know absolutely nothing about colour management, and believe with absolute
certainty that whatever the problem they have with my photos, it cannot be
their fault.
Of course, it may be, but it's really hard to have a productive discussion
with someone who has never given CM a moment's thought, and who blames me
or Windows, or digital in general, out of religious faith. There are a very
large proportion of such people in UK magazine design, who'll click on
'don't convert' without having the faintest idea what it means.
Regards
Tony Sleep -
Online portfolio & exhibit + film scanner info & comparisons
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