Hi Everybody,
A "working" document has one and only one "working" color space. It may be either assigned or embedded.
Thus an imported file or part of an imported file has only two options.
1. Convert the numbers in the imported file or part of an imported file to the working color space of the working document.2. Use the numbers in the imported file without any changes. This doesn't make any sense to me but it is an option.
However, there are three options in Import and Paste. I'm guessing that the first two options are shown as two options because the working document may have either an assigned or embedded color profile. Personally, I believe that this wording and two options are confusing. It seems to imply that these are two independent choices. However these two options depend on whether the working document has an assigned or embedded color profile. To avoid confusion, I believe that they should be merged into one option -- say -- "Change to the working space of the working document."
The third option is ambiguous. Where is the color profile embedded -- in the working document or the file being imported. Worse yet -- you are not "using" the color profile of the imported file. You're just keeping the same numbers. You're still "using" the working color space of the working documents -- possibly incorrectly if the color spaces of the imported file and the working file are different.
This may not be a big deal to experienced users of CDGS. However, it does add more confusion to an already confusing subject -- Color Management.Phil
Phil, every CorelDRAW document has 3 working spaces it supports, an RGB, a Grayscale and a CMYK.
.BY DEFAULT upon opening a file it uses the embedded profiles. Upon pasting or importing it will BY DEFAULT, convert RGB and Grayscale and assigns CMYK to the documents profiles.
Image editors have one working space.
Color profiles are part of any saved CorelDRAW file even if you don't embed the profiles in the saved file and you can prove it to yourself.
Set Corel Photo-PAINT to have a default RGB profile of prophoto, then set CorelDRAW to work in sRGB.
Start a CorelDRAW file, import an sRGB image and save the file to your hard drive, DO NOT EMBED any profiles.
Right click the image, edit bitmap, once in Corel Photo-PAINT, note that Photo-PAINT sees the image as sRGB even though the Photo-PAINT default was set to prophoto.
Now in Photo-PAINT convert the image to LAB, exit Corel Photo-PAINT returning the LAB image to Draw, in Draw change the image to RGB it will be an sRGB image.
Hi Everybody,Here's the Import and Paste options from Photoshop CS5
Note:
1. It has the two options which I suggested.2. There is an incomprehensible "off" option. It's nonsense. A pixel must get numbers from somewhere.
Once again I will sound off. Color management is not difficult. It has been made difficult by the lack of diagrams of the over-all color management system. How can anyone know what's going on if the dialogs refer to one small corner of the total color management system
Phil