On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:55 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: > The odd behavior of the display filters came to my attention because > I've been working on rewriting some of the GIMP color management > documentation and so took a closer look at what all the display filters do. Documenting (briefly) the wrongness might help demonstrate what needs to be done, too. > I agree 100% that soft proofing requires the ability to quickly switch > gamut checks on and off, and also quickly enable/disable soft proofing. +1 although for print work at this point you have to move to Krita or Photoshop, most likely photoShop with a "preflight" plugin, so that you can adjust individual plates (e.g. with dodge) for the different ink colours (CMYK at the most basic, or two plates for a duotone). The decision is (as I understand it) for GIMP to stay out of the print shop so this all gets a little fuzzy for me. But there are plenty of non-print use cases for soft proofing, of course, including e.g. targeting a specific mobile device (even though there's huge variation between individuals, there are basic limits on the colour you can usefully work with) or for projection at a conference or in an art gallery. > A common way to soft proof requires having the image open twice to > compare the original with the soft proofed version. Yes. It's unfortunate that Single Window Mode makes this hard. > The current GIMP preferences allow you to choose "Print Simulation" in > "Preferences/Color Management/Mode of operation". But that sets *all* > open images to Print Simulation mode, for which I can't think of any use > cases. No - a display filter makes more sense, agreed. Then you could maybe make the filter apply be default to all images if you really wanted? There should be (is??) a way to include something in the title bar and/or status bar to show which display filters are active. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
