Re: [darktable-user] Laptop screen calibration

2017-04-27 Thread Koos Pol
Thanks sofar, István. I've been experimenting a lot this week with varying results. I'll get back to you on this topic later, with hopefully a bit more understanding from my part on how the various bits correlate. Koos Op 23-04-17 om 10:22 schreef KOVÁCS István: Hi, Two more things you can

Re: [darktable-user] Laptop screen calibration

2017-04-23 Thread KOVÁCS István
Hi, Two more things you can do to verify everything is OK: - run darktable-cmstest; if it reports "Your system seems to be correctly configured" on the last line, you should be OK (it'll also output the path of the profile in use, check that, too, so you don't end up using some generic profile); i

Re: [darktable-user] Laptop screen calibration

2017-04-22 Thread Markus Jung
> That leaves me with two follow up questions: > 1. I can forget about the instructions for copying the profile to > ~/.config/darktable/color/out ? Yes, this folder is afair for an other purpose (output color profiles and possibly softproofing) > 2. Is there an easy way to see the factual differ

Re: [darktable-user] Laptop screen calibration

2017-04-22 Thread Koos Pol
Excellent. I did install the profile via the openSUSE system setting screen. So that should take care of it. (darktable-cmstest also reports the new profile. So I think this confirms it). That leaves me with two follow up questions: 1. I can forget about the instructions for copying the profile

Re: [darktable-user] Laptop screen calibration

2017-04-22 Thread Markus Jung
If you have installed the color profile properly*, you do not need to do anything more with darktable, because it will obtain and use it automatically. * there is a color management daemon running, like gcm, xiccd or similar, which configures the LUT of your hardware and provides the profile to ap

[darktable-user] Laptop screen calibration

2017-04-22 Thread Koos Pol
I'm a bit lost. Last week I've purchased a ColorHug2 to profile my laptop screen. I've RTFM of the ColorHug2 and now I'm in proud possession of an .icc profile for my latop screen. But I don't know what to do next. I've read the Darktable manual. But there just too many references to color man