[gentoo-user] Color profiles and colorspace awareness

[gentoo-user] Color profiles and colorspace awareness

[Michael Mol]

What's the current state of color space awareness and color profiles
on Linux? I'm at the point where I'd be willing to spring for a
calibration kit to calibrate my monitors, which did not themselves
come with color profiles...except all the kits I've seen seem to
assume Windows.

I'd like to move towards having a full color-aware workflow for both
my LDR and HDR (DEF->JPG, DEF->hugin->stitch->JPG) work, and I'd like
to do it on Linux. I don't want to ask these kinds of questions in
more photography-oriented environments, because I'm tired of being
peppered with "Just use a Mac", "Just use Windows" and "Just use
Photoshop" responses. I know Gimp and ufraw support colorspace
profiles, I've seen the USE flags in portage, it's just the inputs and
outputs of my workflow which I don't yet see how to cover.

Slightly offtopic: I'd love to be able to set up a color profile for
my Pentax K-x's raw output, too. Anyone aware of a

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Re: [gentoo-user] Color profiles and colorspace awareness

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the current state of color space awareness and color profiles
> on Linux? I'm at the point where I'd be willing to spring for a
> calibration kit to calibrate my monitors, which did not themselves
> come with color profiles...except all the kits I've seen seem to
> assume Windows.

media-gfx/argyllcms supports many kinds of hardware calibration
devices and lets you do color management in gentoo. Their website has
a list of the supported hardware:
http://www.argyllcms.com/doc/instruments.html

I have not used it myself, but hopefully that's enough to get you
Googling for some case studies :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Color profiles and colorspace awareness

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's the current state of color space awareness and color profiles
>> on Linux? I'm at the point where I'd be willing to spring for a
>> calibration kit to calibrate my monitors, which did not themselves
>> come with color profiles...except all the kits I've seen seem to
>> assume Windows.
>
> media-gfx/argyllcms supports many kinds of hardware calibration
> devices and lets you do color management in gentoo. Their website has
> a list of the supported hardware:
> http://www.argyllcms.com/doc/instruments.html
>
> I have not used it myself, but hopefully that's enough to get you
> Googling for some case studies :)

That's exactly the kind of lead I needed, thanks!


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