[Openicc] seeking for advice on rendering intent and black point compensation

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> I do wonder if defaulting to converting mismatched images to the working
> space is the best idea, though. I'm increasingly inclined to leave
> images in their native colour space and let the colour management system
> take care of making sure I get a reasonable view of the image on screen.

GIMP is primarily an editing environment and it is one which has been 
primarily tuned (over many years) for sRGB.  If the image colorspace 
is very different from sRGB, then the various GIMP drawing bits (e.g. 
color selection, blending, dithering, brushes, patterns, effects) 
which are designed for sRGB won't produce the expected effect.  Even 
if the colors for every editing operation were carefully converted to 
the input file's working space, the results would still not be the 
same.

There is surely some loss when converting to sRGB but this still seems 
like the desired default approach given GIMPs long legacy and many 
authors/plugins.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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