On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Elle Stone <ellestone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/19/2014 10:47 PM, Simon Budig wrote: >> >> Since a few questions have popped up on IRC and it really is a weird >> concept to grasp I thought I'd expand a bit on the color math that is >> being discussed here. Sorry it is so long, I hope it is somewhat >> entertaining though :) > > > Most of what you said is exactly right. > >> To reiterate: Every XYZ coordinate can be represented in the terms of >> sRGB primaries. > > > Above is exactly true. You can DISPLAY and STORE all colors using the sRGB > chromaticities. > > What you can't do is EDIT using sRGB as a universal RGB working space. > > I'm not going to rehearse all the problems that are caused by trying to > force EDITING to be done using the sRGB chromaticities. > > You can DISPLAY and STORE all colors using sRGB chromaticities. But EDITING > is a different matter. > > Yes, all of the above is true. I've said the same myself. In fact I've > written articles on the topic. > > Again, EDITING is different from STORING and DISPLAYING. Then why have you argued against everyone trying to explain this to you? -- Mikael Magnusson _______________________________________________ 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
