@troy_s Great info page, the font is too small on my screen but perhaps that's just me. Expect some windows user questions about the export envvar command though ;)
@troy_s and the progression between contrasts is much better, great :)
@troy_s hi there :) Best Wishes !! Is this youtube.com/… better ? Sorry for the delay, I hope you can still use it. I will make the JPEGs if this fire is ok for you
@troy_s (or others) If a printing company has, and is willing to give me ICC profile files for "soft proofing," will those profiles be helpful in printing? What would I even do with such a file? Specifically, I'm looking at these guys: finerworks.com/info/icc-icm-color-profiles.aspx
@Matt Essentially what ICCs were designed specifically for is graphic arts / design due to printing.
@Matt So in essence an ICC is a Rosetta Stone for the specific printer at a location, using the specific inks, with the precise paper type.
They print out hundreds of swatches, measure the results using absolute colour science and create a transformation Rosetta Stone. That is what ends up in the ICC.
@Matt So having the ICC ends up being effectively the "destination colour space" if you will; you work in reference (an ICC in graphic printing applications typically) and then soft proof against the destination ICC. What you will see is a lower contrast estimation as to how it would look printed.
@Matt Typically you would want to choose an acceptable rendering intent that conveys the work best, as the gamut and contrast will be lacking. Selecting "Black Point Compensation" is very wise frequently, and Perceptual intents (specifically Argyll's) may help if you are delivering work from a much wider gamut.
@Matt Relative colorimetric is probably an ideal entry / starting point.
I'm still not sure I understand. Is the ICC file something that I'd use to convert my image, or something that I'd use to compare my results to?
Will the ICC let me see an estimation of what my image will look like printed? I get the idea of taking into account the specific printer, ink, and paper... I'm just not sure what to do with the file itself...
@Matt Be sure to tag my handle otherwise I don't get notifications.
@Matt Ultimately it will depend on what the printer requests. For commercial printing they typically expect a PDF 1.4 wrapper with the properly converted ICC CMYK encode.
@Matt Other situations might just want an image tagged appropriately with the encoded format colourspace ICC.
Whether it is convert or soft-proof depends on your workflow and the recommended workflow by your printer.
Using soft proofing you can do you creative work in your reference colourspace and check how the conversion would affect your artwork's color without doing an actual conversion.
Ok. Then it means that you do your creative work in your RGB space of choice freely
When you're done (or during the process) you can check with their icc how it will look when printed.
The profile is the same they will use for the conversion, but since they gave it to you for softproofing, it means that they want you to send RGB and they will take care of producing the CMYK separations.
softproofing is useful because there are a numbe of colours of your usual RGB gamut (sRGB or AdobeRGB usually) that exceed the color latitude a CMYK printer can produce.
Greens, cyans, orange and blue shades are specially problematic.
So if you don't soft proof, you could end up using a colour in your artwork that is not printable
And have a nasty surprise when you get your prints.
Soft proofing is a way to prevent that. You actually see how the gamut mapping to the target colourspace using different intents will affect your artwork, so you can make timely choices about saturation, hue and contrast in order to get the most of your prints.
It's a raster image. I hadn't decided which format to use. I typically use PNG, but I recently heard that's a bad idea... Not sure why, or how much difference it actually makes, though...
Even though a flattened (no transparency) PNG wouldn't be a problem, it's not a format designed for the print industry. TIFF on the other hand is a standard format in the industry. Both allow non-destructive compression, but tiff won't give you any surprise. It will play well with every RIP and design software out there.
@cegaton about the fireflies. I am doing nothing special. I run these simulations for 360 frames at 24fps. And 200 samples per frame. That's all, as far as I know. I am planning a whole series of simulations as you advised to learn the effects of all kind of "settings"
if you like I can upload all my blend files to google drive and make sure the name of the blend file and the youtube movie correspond
I can also do a bit of documentation of the simulation series I am doing
most of it is trial and error
but I use the filmic looks of @troy_s ...probably that hels
helps
would that be an idea ?
@gez there is set of voxel attributes (flame, density, color, heat, velocity) that you can use for construction your domain material and I plan a series of tests. how these attributes help in making a certain fire
@gez I will make a google drive folder and will post. I learn extremely much from the people here. Would be nice if other could use my stuff for a change
@cegaton @troy_s as I said to @gez I will make my work available. Would be nice if someone can benefit from that or make useful comments :)
