Any way to shortcut "Workflow Options"?

Question

More specifically, I alternate between sRGB for saving proofs/email/web images directly out of ACR, and ProPhoto for opening in Photoshop.  If nothing else where are the config files stored, perhaps I could write a Windows script to switch between sets.
Richard Southworth

Answer 1

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RASouthworth wrote:
I'm a color management professional, with reasonably complete knowledge of colorimetry, icc profiles, and the associated equipment/software.  In no way do I consider it a failing for ACR to not arbitraily compress a relatively large color gamut (that from the camera) into a colorspace (sRGB) designed as the average response of crt monitors.
I respect that.  I am also quite up on color management as I create software with color management capability.  But I really don't want to get into theory here.  I'm talking philosophy and practicality - not the basics of color management...
A "given" in this equation is that there are people who WANT to work in sRGB or Adobe RGB, for various reasons.  There's nothing wrong with that.  Note that Adobe sets the default working space to sRGB.  They also set the default ACR conversion output to Adobe RGB.  Just the difference in these two confuses 98% of Photoshop users (another debate entirely), but we note that neither of these is ProPhoto RGB.
Camera Raw already provides the Recovery slider to "roll off" the luminance levels in order to provide a luminance "recovery" capability.  Why not provide color gamut "recovery" also when converting into a limited color space?  The Camera Raw controls CAN, in fact, be tweaked so as to limit or eliminate color channel clipping, but usually they have to be pushed so far as to essentially destroy the usability of the rest of the image.  Hence the need for an action to do it more intelligently.
In my view the Camera Raw plug-in is intented to provide the best possible INPUT to the photo editor.  Many people see it more as an end-all, but it's clearly still providing input to Photoshop as its primary function.
I mentioned Recovery above...  Consider also that tools like "Brightness & Contrast" in Photoshop have been altered so that the "legacy" method is no longer the default, and now the control rolls off the effects at the edges of the luminance range with the clear intention to prevent data loss.
Clipping of color channel data from raw images because someone at some conversion stage says the colors are out of the sRGB gamut is short-sighted, philosophically, in light of the other movement toward kinder, gentler processing of pixels.
The intent with the implementation should not be to steadfastly hold on to some obscure color theory, but rather to help users make good images.  I say that this starts with non-clipped channels.
Last I looked (and I admit it's been a while) Canon's conversion programs made better looking results of what Camera Raw would clip.
-Noel