I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out color management in Gimp.
In the preferences, I clearly have "File Open Behaviour" set to "Ask what to do". My working profile is sRGB, and so is my Monitor profile. I have "Display rendering intent" set to "Relative colorimetric". Yet, everytime I open an image, Gimp never asks me what to do about the color profile. It always assumes sRGB, even if the embedded color profile is Adobe RGB or ProPhoto or whatever else. I always have to manually assign the right color profile after the file has been opened. Further, when I go to assign a color profile, I have to know in advance what the profile of that image was. Gimp doesn't tell me. It lets me change to whatever profile I want, but it won't let me know which one is embedded in the image. Sometimes, the color profile is not listed in the EXIF data at all, which makes it harder to guess. For example, when my camera is set to Adobe RGB, it leaves the EXIF "Color space" field set to "Unassigned". Is this normal Gimp behavior? It's making color management a real nightmare and giving me all kinds of headaches. I sometimes receive images in many different color spaces and I don't always know which ones. Some people love working in ProPhoto because it makes them feel all 1337 and superior. Others send me stuff in Adobe RGB because that's what their printing company requires. I try to stick to sRGB whenever possible, but it's not always ideal. I hope someone can help me with this issue. I have Gimp 2.6.8 on openSUSE 11.2 x86_64. It's a backport from the Gnome OBS repository. -- Frank Gore Project Manager www.projectpontiac.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
