-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 09/09/15 04:42, Mick wrote: > On the same hardware I noticed that a CMYK photograph converted to > sRGB looked mostly the same (indistinguishable) on Linux, but the > sRGB colours were brighter on MSWindows. > > I tried this by dual booting between MSWindows and Linux. > > Then I tried it by running MSWindows within a VM on a Linux host > and the MSWindows showed a clear difference in brightness between > the two formats. > > Finally, I checked on an AppleMac and the difference between the > CMYK and sRGB photographs was even more prominent than MSWindows. > > So, the Linux renedering seems to be misleading the user. Have you > noticed the same? > > BTW, both Linux machines that I tried this on are running radeon > drivers - are these to blame? The AppleMac is running Intel > graphics with its 'retina' monitor. Is it a matter of somehow > tuning the Xorg settings on my Linux PCs?
While I'm certainly not an expert on this sort of thing, one key piece of information that would affect this is what software you used. Specifically, did you use the same software on each platform (therefore the same method of conversion)? - -- wraeth <wra...@wraeth.id.au> GnuPG Key: B2D9F759 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlXvZewACgkQXcRKerLZ91k1FgD/SGsgaIev8ryxjXZPbb84tswc 4FKX3QCqMcOzeDwbciEA+wdjNr//nepKXeN1fZa04/GfgwfYVvlFNyAqiTQqsQzx =j+0r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
