Hi All, I've recently been preparing some photos for printing, so I've been trying to work out the whole colour managed workflow thing. I think I've finally got my screen properly calibrated with my ColorHug, and have loaded the print profiles from the printing company as output colour profiles in darktable. When I go to check the gamut of my photos, I find that they're often way outside the printable gamut:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1v4ulmsw8rvnffk/Vignette%20on%20top%20of%20out%20of%20gamut.png Does anyone have any strategies they could recommend to manually bring these images back inside the printable gamut? Or would I be better off exporting the images with the printer profile selected and with the intent set to perceptual? My problem with that is that the exported images sometimes look really weird in geeqie: https://www.dropbox.com/s/20ninugcvssl8hc/RWH_0052.jpg%20-%20Geeqie_073.png And even worse in the GNOME Image Viewer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0fb0cyb0eiy7zvs/RWH_0052.jpg_074.png I see really saturated colours that look like they're clipping and serious loss of highlight detail. However, the image looks much better in GIMP (this is without converting the colour profile to sRGB): https://www.dropbox.com/s/l6lkgshtkbkkvdw/%5BRWH_0052%5D%20%28imported%29-1.0%20%28RGB%20colour%2C%201%20layer%29%203868x5794%20%E2%80%93%20GIMP_075.png All of these programs are ostensibly colour managed. I guess I'm also wondering whether this is a valid approach to soft-proof the images before sending them? Should I just go ahead and send a few of these to the printer and see how they turn out? Thanks for any advice, Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
