you've seen pascal's old writeup about display colour profiling, right? https://encrypted.pcode.nl/blog/2013/11/24/display-color-profiling-on-linux/
-jo On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Guillermo Rozas <[email protected]> wrote: >> As per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ICC_profiles >> >> "Note that the system on which the profile is generated must host the exact >> same video card and monitor for which the profile is to be used" >> >> And this contradicts to some extend with >> >> http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/Cross_Platform_Color >> >> "They will function the same way on any operating system, and can be easily >> moved from machine to machine." >> >> I am actually using 2 different machines with 2 very different cards (one >> windows and one linux). I think one item that changes the behavior a lot is >> the color temperature. I set it manually to 6500K. Windows would set to this >> value by default while Linux would try to set to 7600K by default. On sRGB - >> windows came at 100% and linux came at 99.9 while Adobe RGB came at 81% >> windows vs 79% linux. > > Yes, I think the colorwiki link was referring mainly to printers, is a > bit misleading (my bad to include it here). Is the same discussion as > with the driver: in principle the graphic card should not affect the > colors that are sent to the monitor, but graphic cards can be so > different between them that in practice it does matter. Same > generation of the same vendor may be OK, two completely different GPU > is probably not safe. > > And yes, color temperature is very important: the profile tries to > match the color temperature you ask for, so a profile with a target of > 7600K will look a lot bluer than one with a target of 6500K. You > probably want 6500K, as that is the standard for monitor viewing. > Brightness is also important, to a lesser degree. > >> There are just a lot of options in Display Cal and even there is >> documentation - some areas are lacking detailed explanation for a beginner. > > Yeah, it also took me a while to understand which options to use, and > even after deciding I was second guessing my configuration all the > time. I'll post tonight the options that I found the most "sane", > maybe it's helpful for you as a start point. If I find the time I'll > try to also write a small walk-through of what I did when I calibrated > my monitor (including the color temperature options). > > Regards, > Guillermo > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
