Re: [Darktable-users] art reproduction, right colors?

2014-11-21 Thread Elle Stone
If you search the ArgyllCMS mailing list archives for threads in which a person named Ben Goren participated, you'll find excellent information on art reproduction. https://www.freelists.org/archive/argyllcms Rob gave excellent advice to get you started and what he said will benefit all of you

Re: [Darktable-users] DE's that play nice with darktable

2014-10-22 Thread Elle Stone
I use ArgyllCMS from the command line. For your basic "calibrate and profile in one step", using ArgyllCMS is easy. See http://argyllcms.com/doc/Scenarios.html. Scroll down to Adjusting, calibrating and profiling in one step. If you want to take complete control over the process, it does get mo

Re: [Darktable-users] DE's that play nice with darktable

2014-10-21 Thread Elle Stone
darktable runs fine using the IceWM window manager, running a mix of KDE and gtk apps and using dispwin to load the monitor profile (no colord, no Gnome, and the bare minimum of KDE required to run digiKam and Krita on Gentoo). Elle On 10/21/2014 01:50 PM, Bernhard wrote: > dito, Cinnamon on L

Re: [Darktable-users] Monitor purchase

2014-10-08 Thread Elle Stone
On 10/08/2014 08:04 AM, andrea.angeloni wrote: > Apart from colorhug, any device known to wrok flawlessy with Linux? I'm > currently running Debian stable with KDE 4. http://argyllcms.com/doc/ArgyllDoc.html has a list of color measuring devices that work with ArgyllCMS. Debian supplies ArgyllCMS

Re: [Darktable-users] A question about sRGB and a question about LAB

2014-08-07 Thread Elle Stone
On 08/07/2014 06:13 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2014, 10:26:18 schrieb Elle Stone: >> So revised question about sRGB as the output profile: Is there a reason >> why an image processed using "image settings" for the output profile >> global

Re: [Darktable-users] A question about sRGB and a question about LAB

2014-08-07 Thread Elle Stone
On 08/07/2014 06:16 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2014, 10:06:38 schrieb Elle Stone: >> This pdf: >> http://darktable.org/redmine/attachments/download/764/color_flowchart.pdf >> seems to indicate that Darktable processing always go through LAB, even

Re: [Darktable-users] A question about sRGB and a question about LAB

2014-08-06 Thread Elle Stone
On 08/06/2014 10:06 AM, Elle Stone wrote: > Is sRGB the only allowed output ICC profile for Darktable? I've chosen > several different output ICC profiles, Darktable-supplied and also from > disk. But always the embedded profile is Darktable sRGB. I've tried > Darktable 1.4.1

[Darktable-users] A question about sRGB and a question about LAB

2014-08-06 Thread Elle Stone
his really the case? Is the image -always- converted to LAB before being converted to the output ICC profile and saved to disk? Cheers, Elle Stone -- http://ninedegreesbelow.com Color management and open sou

Re: [Darktable-users] How to fix out-of-gamut areas

2014-03-10 Thread Elle Stone
On 03/10/2014 08:35 AM, Markus Jung wrote: > I see really saturated colours that look like they're clipping and serious > loss of highlight detail. However, the image > looks much better in GIMP (this is without converting the colour profile to > sRGB): > Those saturated highlight colours look

Re: [Darktable-users] Export to standard sRGB?

2014-03-03 Thread Elle Stone
gamma sRGB" or even "Darktable 4.1 built-in linear gamma sRGB". That way, if the software embeds some strange version of a standard RGB working space, the user might have a chance to track down the culprit! Cheers, Elle Stone

Re: [Darktable-users] Export to standard sRGB?

2014-03-03 Thread Elle Stone
son who wrote the patch to make this happen. If you *apply* in turn the color.org V2 sRGB (black scaled version), the LCMS2 built-in sRGB, and the ArgyllCMS sRGB.icm profiles to the same image, one after another, visually you won't see a difference. If you assign one of these profiles and then

Re: [Darktable-users] How to keep darktable from writing XMP files

2013-12-02 Thread Elle Stone
On 12/02/2013 04:57 PM, Simon Spannagel wrote: > I actually thought darktable would write into the same XMP file using > its own name space. Therefore the two sets of information shouldn't > interfere beside the things like rating that are stored in the common > namespace. I read through one of t

Re: [Darktable-users] How to keep darktable from writing XMP files

2013-12-02 Thread Elle Stone
On 12/02/2013 01:27 PM, David Vincent-Jones wrote: > Not writing sidecar files would probably negate much of darktables > capability since there would be no history of processing. Darktable > would then be another 'dumb' processor in the same manner as Digikam. > Oil and water simply do not mix wel

Re: [Darktable-users] How to keep darktable from writing XMP files

2013-12-02 Thread Elle Stone
On 12/02/2013 12:55 PM, Robert William Hutton wrote: > On 02/12/13 17:52, Robert William Hutton wrote: >> On 02/12/13 17:52, Elle Stone wrote: >>> Is there any way to disable the writing of darktable's XMP files? I >>> don't want them written to my archive fol

[Darktable-users] How to keep darktable from writing XMP files

2013-12-02 Thread Elle Stone
Is there any way to disable the writing of darktable's XMP files? I don't want them written to my archive folder as I use digikam and exiftool to take care of tagging, rating, etc. I really don't want to use darktable's DAM functionality. I don't want darktable to ever write xmp files and espec

[Darktable-users] tiff is always compressed?

2013-12-02 Thread Elle Stone
I exported an IT8 target shot using darktable and tried to read it with argyllcms scanin, which generated errors: TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, 090710-1301-109-0937.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order. TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, 090710-1301-109-0937.tif: unknown f

[Darktable-users] How to make a set of modules and preferences settings "stick"

2013-11-09 Thread Elle Stone
same settings/modules/presets (not sure what the right term is)? Thanks very much for any enlightenment. I've been struggling with this for several days and not finding an answer. Elle Stone -- November Webinars