I edit photos in a space deprived from outside light, for exactly
that reason. Yes, it makes a difference - no, the difference isn't
important enough to be important in most situations.
--thomas
On 29Dec , 2006, at 6:34 AM, Allan Mee wrote:
>
> A problem for colour profiling a monitor is that the 'light' isn't
> just
> one-way (I know that most people probably think it is). Let me
> explain.
> Let's say you do your colour profiling at night. The chances are
> you will be
> illuminating the room with artificial light. So during the day,
> when [I
> assume] the room is illuminated with daylight, your colour profile
> is, shall
> we say, less suitable - unless you use heavy curtains or blinds
> over the
> windows and put the artificial lights back on. But ven then there
> could be
> problems. The human eye is an adaptive biological organ and it may
> (I don't
> know for sure) adjust it's workings for the time of day/night due to
> biological triggers - e.g. at night, maybe the eye prefers to use rods
> rather than cones. With colour profiling, you have to first think
> about what
> time of day and under what lighting conditions do you *usually* edit
> photographs (or other activities where the lighting is important)
> and do the
> *main* colour profiling under those conditions. You will likely
> want to do
> other, alternate colour profiles for when you work at other times.
> A fixed
> 'routine' for editing pictures begins to sound like less hassle
> (and so it
> should!). *Serious* gamers often have multiple colour profiles -
> matched to
> time of day, lighting used and the game in question and some may
> habe 100s
> of profiles (some games have facilities for colour profiling - and
> some may
> even *make* you set a profile).
> What would be nice I guess, is some software [in the OS itself]
> that would
> automatically select an appropriate general/global colour profile
> you've
> already set-up based on the time of day/night and which would allow
> you to
> easily but temporarily over-ride it and set/select another colour
> profile
> for a session.
> Allan
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