color management spec

Graeme Gill graeme2 at argyllcms.com
Sun Jun 1 20:32:25 PDT 2008


Tomas Carnecky wrote:

> Ideally no support at all from applications should be needed. If you for 
> example set the default profile for untagged windows to sRGB (which is 
> what applications implicitly assume) then you get a color corrected 

You can't assume that applications assume sRGB. A color calibration/profiling
application for instance, assumes that the RGB values represent the
native monitor color space, an assumption that in fact is in close
accord to reality.

Graeme Gill.



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