Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-12 Thread Elle Stone
On 01/12/2017 01:12 PM, Elle Stone wrote: On 01/11/2017 02:00 PM, Casey Connor wrote: Ok, thanks -- I was just confused because you said "LCMS soft proofing will report that all the colors are in gamut" but when I soft proofed to that profile it showed lots of colors that are out of gamut...

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-12 Thread Elle Stone
On 01/12/2017 01:12 PM, Elle Stone wrote: No, my apologies, you are right, you will see out of gamut colors indicated in the test situation you describe. I was trying too hard to not cover a lot of cases in detail. To try to summarize the relevant details: No, drat, I still got some of the

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-12 Thread Elle Stone
On 01/11/2017 02:00 PM, Casey Connor wrote: Ok, thanks -- I was just confused because you said "LCMS soft proofing will report that all the colors are in gamut" but when I soft proofed to that profile it showed lots of colors that are out of gamut... this link

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-11 Thread Elle Stone
On 01/10/2017 05:44 PM, Casey Connor wrote: I had planned to use Argyll/displaycal, and make a matrix profile per your suggestions. I think I read on your site that a LUT version would also be handy also for using occasional perceptual rendering intent to get a feel for all the detail in an

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-10 Thread Casey Connor
I recommend using Rec2020 or ACEScg as your "go to" wide gamut color space (but not when using default GIMP, for reasons already mentioned) - ACEScg is used by people making images for cinema, Rec2020 is the up-and-coming standard for monitors, and both of these spaces are good all-around

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-10 Thread Elle Stone
On 01/09/2017 04:41 PM, Casey Connor wrote: The only reason I was playing with the output profile and monitor profiles was mainly to test my understanding of it, not because I was developing a particular workflow. The "colorful image" I was using was one of the test images here:

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-09 Thread Casey Connor
Thanks very much, Elle, for the detailed reply! Firstly: I've been studying up on color theory for the last month or two and your website is amazing and very helpful, so thanks for the huge amount of work you have put in to it. There are not many (possibly no) resources like it, at least as

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-09 Thread Elle Stone
On 01/08/2017 07:47 PM, Partha Bagchi wrote: Try Elle Stone's color corrected experimental version. See if that helps. CCing her in case. Hi Casey, My apologies, I'm not sure exactly what you are describing below, so I've asked a couple of questions to try to figure out what procedures you

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-09 Thread Elle Stone
On 01/08/2017 09:13 PM, Casey Connor wrote: Thanks again, Partha! As a recent convert to LCH, Elle's version looks pretty amazing. I'm a little nervous to mess with my gimp install, as a non-sysadmin expert, but if Elle has the time to respond maybe she can let me know if there'd be value in

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-08 Thread Casey Connor
Thanks again, Partha! As a recent convert to LCH, Elle's version looks pretty amazing. I'm a little nervous to mess with my gimp install, as a non-sysadmin expert, but if Elle has the time to respond maybe she can let me know if there'd be value in trying her version. (I get the impression

Re: [Gimp-user] color management -- basic question

2017-01-08 Thread Partha Bagchi
Try Elle Stone's color corrected experimental version. See if that helps. CCing her in case. On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Casey Connor wrote: > Hi -- basic color management question here; this is gimp 2.9.5 (commit > 00faf17965) on Linux. > > If I open a