On 04/28/2016 06:00 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2016, 18:18:38 schrieb Elle Stone:
The darktable sRGB profile is a "V2 according to V4" profile with a
point TRC. So this profile clips out of gamut channel values in floating
point images.
Yes, what would you suggest? Using a different encoding for the TRC?
GIMP's internal sRGB profile is a V4 profile with a parametric TRC, so
GIMP's sRGB profile doesn't clip out of gamut channel values in floating
point images.
So is darktable's internal sRGB profile (the one you can select in "input color
profile"). We just export with a V2 to make it easy to actually look at the
image. And I don't expect people to export float images in sRGB.
I don't have any suggestions. You pinpoint the problem exactly:
* A V2 version of sRGB is better for images that are uploaded to the
web, which I think is what you mean by "make it easy to actually look at
the image". But if you mean something else, please clarify.
* Exporting floating point images that aren't encoded linearly seems
like an odd thing to do, and especially so if the image contains out of
gamut channel values.
The only solution to the problem that I can think of is user education:
1. For output of a finished "ready to display" image directly from
darktable, export the image using darktable's V2 sRGB profile.
2. For exporting to disk for further editing at floating point
precision, export a floating point linear gamma image. And deal with any
out of gamut (and especially negative) channel values before using
editing operations that involve multiplying by a non-gray color, and
before trying to edit using nonlinearized RGB. This is a bit difficult
to keep track of in GIMP as some editing operations do work by default
on RGB encoded using the sRGB TRC, even if the image was opened in GIMP
as a linear gamma image.
People wanting to export images for printing on wider gamut photographic
printers of course aren't covered by these two options. They probably
would want to export using a wider gamut color space.
Best,
Elle
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