Hi Ross, I don't have a dog in the EXIF fight. I never look at it. I only want the time and date to be preserved. I believe that the EXIF data should be preserved because many photographers want it. Why does CDGS go out of its way to discard it. If it's going to cause programming bugs, then CDGS should be shipped off to China. They released Corel PaintShopPro X8 ($39) without a single bug -- plus it has a working mesh warp, liquefy, content aware fill, magic move, simple straighten tool, etc. Agreed. EXIF data is not needed for production work. So ? I feel the same way about color management. Trillions of photos were reproduced in glossy magazines before anyone heard of color management. Which brings me to my favorite gripe. 1. The color management dialogs in CDGS and Photoshop are useless garbage ! 2. All that you do is pick the profile for the working space. 3. That's nice. What's a profile. Simple. It's a mathematical transformation from the color space of the working document to the color space of the profile connection space. Tell that to an illustrator. 4. Huh. What's a color space. See the tutorial by Phil and Ellie. Ok. It just a way of assigning a few numbers to a color and vice versa. The tutorial shows how the assignment is organized. I happen to like the color management dialog in X4 and earlier. The entire color management system is laid out in front of your eyes. You don't have to go to the operating system to set the profiles for printer, scanner, monitor, etc. You don't have to go to the printer dialog to set the preview (soft proofing). You don't have to understand profiles and color spaces. Just follow the yellow brick line. The diagram was not totally accurate. But that may have been all for the better. The central space was shown as the working document. More accurately, it's the profile connection space. The document working space is another peripheral attached to the central working space. Anybody wanna tutorial on color management minus the ICC hot air. If so, hurry. Ellie is bringing out the beer. Phil
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