On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:53:59 +0000 tony Hamilton <shaky.st...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> myself, failing to understand the > implications of 'input' in 'input profile'. An input color profile just tells darktable the meaning of the numbers in the input file. If this is a raw file from your camera, and if you've prepared a specific profile for that, you can replace the standard matrix which is used by default. > how to tell dt where my icc profile > is You don't. darktable has a few places where to look for input profiles. If you open the input color profile module and hover the mouse over the text "input profile", darktable will tell you, where. A typlical place is ~/.config/darktable/color/in. Whatever is there, darktable will give you a choice for the image you are working on. Beware, darktable won't show you a file name but the name which is within that profile. Having there two versions of the same profile, might give you two equal entries in the menu, even if the file names are different. > I did calibrate the monitor, using SpyderX and > its calibration software, The monitor is an output device. If this is not available throuch Xatoms or colord, you can choose it in lighttable, the monitor icon at the left lower corner of the central area. > but under Windows I'm not a Windows user, but I would expect argyll and displaycal to be available. You don't need them to use darktable. You only need them, if you want to prepare your own profiles. You can use any other method to do so. As long as the resulting profiles are valid, darktable should be able to use them. For creating new profiles, you might want to search for help on the argyll mailing list. > how colour management is implemented in dt. darktable can use the system wide color management settings, but offers you the options to make specific choices for each image you edit. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
