On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:33:19 -0500 Doug Newgard <[email protected]> said:

> > Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:20:33 +0900
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > CC: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [E-devel] Enlightenment pngs with embedded iCC profiles
> > 
> > On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:12:44 +1000 David Seikel <[email protected]> said:
> > 
> >> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:39:19 -0500 Doug Newgard <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> ----------------------------------------
> >>>> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:44:15 +0900
> >>>> From: [email protected]
> >>>> To: [email protected]
> >>>> CC: [email protected]
> >>>> Subject: Re: [E-devel] Enlightenment pngs with embedded iCC profiles
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:15:47 -0500 Doug Newgard
> >>>> <[email protected]> said:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'm sure some of you have seen the warnings generated by libpng
> >>>>> 1.6: "known incorrect sRGB profile". Now, this is no big deal,
> >>>>> it's just a warning, but I still wanted to look into it further.
> >>>>> By my count, there are 800 png files in Enlightenment, of which
> >>>>> only 6 have embedded iCC profiles, all from HP. The rest are sRGB
> >>>>> colorspace, but do not include a profile. There are some good
> >>>>> arguments for this (http://imageoptim.com/color-profiles.html
> >>>>> http://www.gballard.net/psd/save_for_web_embed_ICC_profile.html)
> >>>>> and since this seems to be the default, I've attached the 6 files
> >>>>> with the profiles stripped out. As you can see, it doesn't change
> >>>>> the image or the colorspace, it just leaves the calibration up to
> >>>>> the end user's system.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I haven't been able to find just what's wrong with the HP iCC
> >>>>> profile being used that the authors of libpng don't like, but it
> >>>>> makes sense to standardize the way profiles are handled anyway.
> >>>>> And it has the nice side effect of silencing warnings, even if the
> >>>>> Debian/Ubuntu users aren't likely to see them for a couple of
> >>>>> years.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I can just change the iCC profile instead if you would prefer.
> >>>>> I've seen multiple people recommend the Argyll sRGB profile, which
> >>>>> is still "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" and is public domain.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Elementary has a lot more pngs with the HP profile, so once I know
> >>>>> for sure what people would prefer, I'll fix them, too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Doug
> >>>>
> >>>> what we need to know is what is adding the hp profile causing the
> >>>> warinig. what tool does it? is it gimp? photoshop? imagemagick?
> >>>> otherwise we go creating warnings again if that tool is used...
> >>> 
> >>> That's a good question. On my machine, GIMP refuses to even export
> >>> the image with the HP profile, so I doubt that's it unless that's
> >>> because of libpng 1.6. I do know that the HP profile is not included
> >>> with GIMP, only their built-in profile which is used for display, it
> >>> does not get embedded into images. I did find some information about
> >>> the HP profile in relation to Photoshop, but others said that it
> >>> didn't come with Photoshop and suggested it may have been included
> >>> with printer/scanner software. I did find that Photoshop does not
> >>> embed a profile by default when exporting PNGs. As far as I can tell,
> >>> Imagemagick doesn't include any iCC profiles, so that can't be it,
> >>> either. On my system, I have profiles from Colord, Argyll, Oyranos,
> >>> and Yamma, and none of them include the problem profile. Where this
> >>> profile came from is sitll a bit of a mystery to me.
> >> 
> >> Look at the SVN / git history for the images with that HP profile.
> >> That at least will tell you WHO added them. Than ask that person
> >> what they used to make them / last used to massage them / where they got
> >> them from.
> > 
> > given the images... one i know i created years ago with gimp. others i think
> > came from manowarrior (he did his work with inskacpe and/or photoshop and
> > illustrator?)
> 
> Yep, git blame on the icons, at least, gives me d6dab499 and  f72b2067. The
> former says icons from manowarrior, the second is optimizing the images. The
> iCC profile seems to be in the originals from manowarrior. Loading them up in
> a hex editor, I see a string that says "iCCPPhotoshop ICC profile", so this
> does seem to be originally from Photoshop. I wonder if they're still using it
> or if it was only in an older version?

so... photoshop blame! :)

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