On 03/29/2013 07:22 PM, Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
Hi! > Well, only very few applications are able to get the profile from > colord, it > might be a bit better with the alternative way, the x atom. But that's a > technical detail we can ignore for now. > > > Particularly if one is using GNOME it makes very little sense to manage > this all manually... This is what I understood. > If you use GNOME Color Manager to calibrate your display, pretty much > everything should just automagically work... I expected that. I just started to wonder where my shadow details might have ended up, thats why I started to play with output profile options and links to get icc profiles visible in dt at all. > > All looks pretty well till here. > > > > Now I open Darktable with it's default settings. (Empty > library.db etc.) > > If I understand it correctly, it should now ask colord for the > profile > > to use and use it for the display itself, right? > > Yes. > > > Operating via colord does not require the links in > ~/.config/darktable/color though... Understood that. I added them only for the profiles to be visible within dt to see if there's something screwed up. I suspected, that at some point the proper display profile was not loaded and <whatever> defaulted to some failsafe default that had me to loose a lot of colour details. That's why I made the profiles visible to dt and set them explicitly with the idea that "if everything works as expected, this should not change at all". Actually, at the moment I even have a wide gamut hardware calibrated monitor at one box and I suspected that just loading default AdobeRGB in gnome colour manager + setting that beast to AdobeRGB in hardware should already be quite good. But I had actually the same problems as outlined above. So I suspected something did not load properly. [...] > > Could someone clarify my misunderstanding here? > > You should change the display profile, not the output profile. For > output you > probably want something like sRGB or AdobeRGB. > > > You may want to read up on this: > > http://blog.pcode.nl/2012/01/29/color-management-on-linux/ This post is indeed quite a good read, and I read it some time ago. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/12124-176961-30367-2 _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
