<snip> my question was: what's best for the casual photographer whose workflow is: camera -> gimp editing -> printing in a shop or publish in a web gallery I'd better get and use an icm/icc profile or not?
</snip> as a casual photographer, what i did is this : print a RGB color disc selecting R(FF000000)G(00FF00)B(0000FF) from GIMP that gives an idea how your printer will show the full colors. Now compare the print colors with the monitor colors, i trusted my eye. Change the brightness/contrast/gamma value of the monitor manually to suit the print colors. after this not so professional method, i took a few prints of my pictures. I m pretty happy! If i need exhibit quality prints, i take the image to a nearest photo print guy ask him to do the necessary adjustments and then print it. I am satisfied :) pls note! this is the very very crude method i followed.. Thanks, Akshay _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user