Hi, On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:40 +0200, Peter Karp wrote: > I assume that RGB and CMYK space are the default spaces for new > pictures and that it can be assigend to untagged pictures? For what is > CMYK space used when Gimp does not support CMYK editing of files or > have I overseen that this will be possible with Gimp 2.3/2.4? The CMYK default colorspace is supposed to be used by the CMYK color selector as well as by plug-ins that want to offer export to CMYK. > 2) I loaded a picture which has an embedded profile, but I found that > the embedded profile is not honored (of course the mode "colormanaged > monitor" was active). > > That's a 'must have' for a colormanaged image editor. We know that. Colormanagement is still unfinished and it's not considered to do anything useful yet. You are loooking at a rough prototype. I hope that I can get back to hacking on color management soon. > 3) In addition to 2) I could not find an option to assign or in the > other case convert a file from one color space to the other. That's > also a very important function which is possible with lcms and which > must be present. > > 4) From 2) and 3) will follow that one has to make a decision what to > do when a picture profile does not match the default RGB working space > (as long as Gimp does not support CMYK editing). Photoshop allows to > choose > a) "no colormanagement" > b) assign profile (Combo box with installed profiles) > c) convert to profile (Combo box with installed profiles) This is all planned. Your comments are however quite useful and I would very much appreciate if you could have a look at color management again as soon as the implementation has come forward a little. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
