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Subject: Re: [AE] color space management
From: Richard Green <Rich@loopcorp.com>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:49:18 +0100
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Hi Michael

It sounds like whoever made the jpegs didn't know about colour =
management and assigned an incorrect colour space but she's decided she =
prefers that look!  First thing you could try is open them both up in =
Photoshop, take your jpeg and go to the bottom left of your window and =
select Document Profile to see what space it's been saved in.=20

http://www.loopcorp.com//Miscellany/Colour_Space.png

Now go to the tiff and see what it's Document Profile is. If it's =
different go to Edit > Assign Profile (not Convert to Profile) and try =
the same profile as the jpeg. Trouble is, you don't know how much that =
jpeg's been abused profile-wise so that may not be the answer but that =
may be the easy solution.=20

If it works and your AE work is going to be done in something video =
friendly like REC-709, I would then go to Edit > Convert to Profile and =
set your Destination Space to HDTV (REC-709). Photoshop will then put it =
into the correct space for AE while preserving the look that your client =
wants. I believe you can set AE to preserve the incoming profiles but =
this is way I prefer to do it, others may disagree!

I get lots of problems with photographers using Assign Profile rather =
than Convert to Profile. HTH.

Cheers
Rich
www.loopcorp.com


On 25 Jul 2012, at 18:16, mpo@michaeloreilly.com wrote:

> I don't usually have to worry about Color Space management, but I am
> making a piece about a photographer and the book of her photos she is
> publishing.
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> She has given me high res TIFF files of those photos for use in an AE
> built montage. She has also given me low res jpg's built for the web =
so I
> can compare the two (TIFF and JPG) and get the tiff to look like the =
jpg.
> Even though I know some things about color management, it seems I =
don't
> know enough to get the TIFF's to look like the JPEG's. (the JPEGs' =
look
> more saturated and orangey and in IMHO, look worse that the TIFF's =
when I
> bring both in without changing any settings.
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> Can anyone point me to a good resource for figuring out where I am =
going
> wrong ?
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> Thanks - mike o
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> CS5.5
> OSX10.6.8
> Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
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