Bit of a long shot here that anyone can help, but I have noticed some clipping to black of the very dark tones in Phocus recently. Don't know when exactly it started happening, but it seems anything below about 10,10,10 RGB will clip to black, making previews look more contrasty than the exported tiff when opened in Photoshop. This is at any magnification. Quite obvious side by side, with the exported image open in Photoshop next to the preview in Phocus.
So it looks like I have a monitor profiling issue. The monitor is an Eizo CG243W, which uses a hardware calibration using a Colormunki device. Even though the calibration is hardware, i.e. it produces LUTs in the monitor as opposed to translating colours through software (as far as I understand), the Eizo calibration software also produces an icc file in my profiles folder, which Phocus seems to use. I know this because I trashed it and the colours went haywire in Phocus. So I re-profiled, and a new icc file was created, but the very dark tones are still clipped in Phocus.
Does anyone else see this issue? Why does Phocus seem to use the software icc file but Photoshop doesn't, allowing the monitor's hardware profile to be used? Am I not understanding it properly? Is it a bug, with either Phocus, the Eizo software or somewhere else?
Hardware is a 2009 Mac Pro, running OS X 10.8, using Phocus 2.8.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
So it looks like I have a monitor profiling issue. The monitor is an Eizo CG243W, which uses a hardware calibration using a Colormunki device. Even though the calibration is hardware, i.e. it produces LUTs in the monitor as opposed to translating colours through software (as far as I understand), the Eizo calibration software also produces an icc file in my profiles folder, which Phocus seems to use. I know this because I trashed it and the colours went haywire in Phocus. So I re-profiled, and a new icc file was created, but the very dark tones are still clipped in Phocus.
Does anyone else see this issue? Why does Phocus seem to use the software icc file but Photoshop doesn't, allowing the monitor's hardware profile to be used? Am I not understanding it properly? Is it a bug, with either Phocus, the Eizo software or somewhere else?
Hardware is a 2009 Mac Pro, running OS X 10.8, using Phocus 2.8.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben