NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/next/software/3111

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From: [e-mail] (Andre Kuzniarek)
Subject: Re: Adobe Photoshop: Port that suckah' over! / Gamma
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:40:19 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(Andrew Loewenstern) writes:

> This would be great if it were doing CMYK display emulation, but it's
> not, so that color is going to come out totally wrong (especially
> compared to the rest of the image) when you go to press.

Even if Image did CMYK emulation, I would probably not trust what I see on
my NeXTstation color monitor. The monitor's colors are way too bright and
do not compare at all to anything printed (while still accounting for the
differences between additive and subtractive color systems). I'm seeing
bright gaudy teals on the screen when the printed colors are almost Navy.

For a while I was using HSD's color scanner on my NeXT, and found the
scans to be beautiful and accurate, but only on a NeXT screen. They appear
way too dark when viewed on other platforms (Macs especially), and they
printed dark as well. I have since switched to using the scanner on a Mac,
with the appropriate software, and the scans look beautiful on the Mac
screen as well as printed, but pale and overly bright on the NeXT.

All this leads me to the question: Is there any gamma correction software
for NeXT monitors? Is it even possible to have such a thing on the NeXT?
The gamma software that comes with Photoshop for the Mac is very useful
for tweaking one's display to get as close as possible to printed output.

AK