Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker 
<tbaker1328@s...> wrote:
>
> Actually, it's the program designers that really make the 
difference in how good the profile is that a piece of software turns 
out.  It's not 'cut and dried'.  There are qualitative decissions 
that must be made in determining how the software handles the imput 
values to create a profile.  It's not just plugging in a bunch of 
numbers.  There's real creative ingenuity behind the scenes.  
Otherwise, one program wouldn't be worth more than others.
>    


The "special sauce", each has it's own way of dealing with things 
like perceptual rendering, and out of gamut colors in the 
colorimetric rendering intents. Saturation intent is almost 
completely open to interpretation. ICC v4 makes some things more 
constant, but still leaves room for the "special sauce" in many areas.