I've been asked by a picture library to supply digital files for all submissions. One of their standards is to make sure that the histograms are not clipped at either end, which for a lot of images is not a problem. Some images I've been working on today are a little more tricky, being into the light and as a result are quite contrasty.
My scanner (microtek 4000t) was profiled by Neil Barstow and my monitor is calibrated regularly. The images in question are visually accurate on screen and are a good representation of the transparencies, but the blacks are clipped. In the book "Real world photoshop" by David Blatner and Bruce Fraser, they say they "prefer working visually...rather than strictly by the numbers." Will a colour house throw their hands up in horror if they saw a clipped histogram? I realize this is leading towards a much larger subject, but is the library guidline realistic?
Regards,
Paul Debois
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