Hi all,

My thoughts on update possibilities are towards getting a 'perfect' scan!

I've just completed and imported a hundred scans into PP! It seems to me that PP is well aware when a perfect target scan is done - Since it tells you so. i.e. 2 sectors only from IT8 at max/min brightness and no grey clipped, so when the 'adjoined' PP pattern is selected and appraised (from the same scanner and settings of course) with a 'perfect' resulting histogram - i.e. as per the PP help file pix, then surely a greater comment/suggestion could be given as to why there are 180 squares at max brightness??

For example, could there be a suggestion that the printed target may not have been done using correct (no col mgmt) settings, etc? Or, could it be found by the software on this scenario that "The reason your ideal target scan is not replicated in the PP pattern print is likely due to...... "YOUR PATTERN PRINT IS TOO BRIGHT/ DARK/ ETC ETC ETC. So please reprint pattern and ensure all col mgmt is set to NONE." Etc, or an even more detailed/exacting solution...?

I for one am presently floundering on why PP finds my IT8 scan perfect and the adjoined Pattern to have 180+ X's, despite it also having a perfect histogram.

On visual appearance many of the Max Bright squares are not even near white - so how can they be found to have max brightness - yet a perfect histogram on both it8 and Pattern???

cheers, :-)

ps, Scanner used here was an older Microtek scsi V636 - PP thinks its IT8 scan was great with 2 squares at max/min brightness and no grey clipped!! I even got the scanner out of my junk pile to do this job - where its been for 3 months! :-( Software used was Microtek's standard twain driver D/L ex their website and scan imported via Photoshop CS3 & then saved for PP with no icc profile.

Hi:

Any news about the update?

I was planning an update that would include a major update to the color management engine that is the "guts" of PP.  That should add some slight improvements in profile accuracy and a significant increase in profile generation speed, but that CM engine update is not yet available.  I still plan an update when that is out and I'm told November.  I have no control over that because I'm not the author.  Other than that and maybe a minor UI change here or there, I don't see a whole lot of need for a PP update.  It has been quite well tweaked as far as performance and some of the things I'm hearing (like ability to edit third party non-PP profiles) don't really belong in PP which I wish to remain a simple profile generation tool not an overall ICC profile toolbox.  But still, I'm hopeful that I can release 7.0 with the new color engine after November when I get the update.

Regards,
Mike