Hello Frantisek, PJA>>> Or else it's a phantom feature, a proposed feature that (was never)/(had PJA>>> yet to be) implemented. S>> My guess would be that it will simply follow the Windows color S>> space and reflect this so if you invest in color space management S>> for Windows and select an alternative to Bill's default of sRGB S>> then PSP will use it.
F> In Windows, I think you can only choose your monitor colour space. F> This is used to display properly the graphics. This gets passed to the F> application. It's up to the application to choose its internal working F> space, which it is quite useful to have a wider gamut one than sRGB. I spent some time on the Microsoft website. As far as I can work out, sRGB is the built in default and indeed it is "based" on monitor capabilities but Windows is colour space neutral in that it will use any colour space properly provided and there are published APIs (amongst other things) for this. However, the market for alternative colour spaces is small and specialist so there are only a few alternatives out there and they tend to be expensive. A number of programs including Photoshop bypass the Windows management and implement their own colour space (not a huge risk for the market leader in graphics to take as everyone else will make their products work with it anyway regardless of Microsoft standards). Looking through various postings about the latest PSP, my view of the consensus is that JASC decided not to try and hack Windows themselves or license an existing alternative colour space model on the basis that there is not much demand for it from the target customer base (those with more sophisticated requirements assumed to be using Adobe Photoshop I guess). That aside, it is not clear to be what I am losing out on as the RAW images from the *ist D seem to be only 12 bit (16 bit with 4 bits zeroed) let alone 24 bit. What might I want to do to the images that would only work with increased bit depth? (I appreciate that I can scan from film at a higher density - my Perfect 3200 is well capable.) -- Stuart mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
