I recommend using Rec2020 or ACEScg as your "go to" wide gamut color space (but not when using default GIMP, for reasons already mentioned) - ACEScg is used by people making images for cinema, Rec2020 is the up-and-coming standard for monitors, and both of these spaces are good all-around editing color spaces.
Thanks, I'll check those out. Unfortunately my raw development program (Canon DPP) only exports to a few options.
Profiling your monitor is a good thing to do. If your monitor is relatively new and has a good sRGB preset, then what you see right now is probably a pretty good guide to what your images actually look like. But not all monitors come with good sRGB presets.
Yeah, it's old and cheap (Dell 1707Fp). :-) I had planned to use Argyll/displaycal, and make a matrix profile per your suggestions. I think I read on your site that a LUT version would also be handy also for using occasional perceptual rendering intent to get a feel for all the detail in an image?
So currently trying to soft proof to the built-in GIMP sRGB profile is a waste of time as LCMS soft proofing will report that all the colors are in gamut.
Hmmm... so if I have a wide-gamut image and set soft-proofing profile to sRGB-elle-V4-srgbtrc.icc, soft proofing works -- that's because your version of gimp's sRGB is amended in the necessary ways to make it so?
I think you might mean "layer blend modes"? - "overlay" is the name of a particular blend mode, but it's not one of the LCH blend modes.
Yes, thanks.
Well, what you can do is duplicate the layer, use GIMP's "Colors/Levels" or "Colors/Curves" or "Colors/Exposure" and set the layer blend mode to "Lightness", which will leave the Hue and Chroma of the original layer unaltered.
Nice! I had previously used the Lch blend modes for color repair stuff; hadn't played with the lightness mode.
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