Hi Gerhard,
Gerhard Gaußling wrote:
> I'm not a Programmer, but isn't it possible to make a plug-in which load's
> the icc information at a first step, to offer the user the ability to
> decide in which way he wants to handle the file regarding it's color space?
It would be possible to do the following:
- load image's raw data, and ICC profile
- During display, convert from source colorspace to display
colorspace
- During saving, save the originally loaded ICC profile back to
file, if the format supports it, or convert to sRGB if it
doesnt.
The problems with that approach are
- Lots of elements in the GIMP are not colorspace aware - for
example, you would have to modify the paint tools to detect
whether there was an ICC profile associated with a display they
were painting to, and color convert the (sRGB) data that they
are painting. This is not possible currently, and Sven has
expressed a desire that color management be kept out of the
core in the past.
- Data which enters the image from other sources (copy & paste
from another image, for example) may have been in a different
colorspace, requiring convertion or some other funkiness to
keep things coherent inside the image
> After this step the file will be converted into the choosed colorspace[*]
> and then loaded into the gimp, displayed in the working colorspace,
> corrected by the monitor profile, with the possibility to choose a "color
> proof view" with a selectable icc profile for the soft proof.
We currently have the ability to do color proofs with external
ICC profiles. THe interface to the loading of the profiles isn't
perfect yet, but it's there.
Cheers,
Dave.
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David Neary,
Lyon, France
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