Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 05:37:20AM -0400 schrieb Philip Webb: > Meanwhile, the advice has to be don't manipulate PNGs using Gwenview : > convert them to JPG first. Rather, manipulate them with something other than gwenview, which is always better than to use JPG due to compression artifacts

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
210919 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:01:51 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> The patch is dated 'June 11', so it may take awhile yet to reach Gentoo. > 5.15.2 is already in testing, which explains why I was unable > to reproduce this in the way it hit you, > but there was still one

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:01:51 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Tibor Nagy of KDE Bugzilla has replied very promptly : > > My guess this happens due to botched gamma handling. > Washed out images are a prime symptom of that kind of bugs. > Seems like when a PNG gAMA chunk is present, > Gwenview

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : solved

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
210917 Philip Webb wrote: > It's only when I crop a PNG image in Gwenview > & save it in place (ie with the same name), that the colors are faded > & that's only when viewed with Gwenview, not eg with Feh. > The bad case does look like a Gwenview bug, > & in fact, as I had forgotten (grimace), I

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : bug submitted

2021-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
210914 Philip Webb wrote: > 210913 David Haller wrote: >> Gwenview uses color-management via media-libs/lcms, feh does not. >> See "Rendering intent" and "Color profile" under "Advanced" >> in Gwenview's configure dialog. HTH. > That cb relevant, but I've explored further & have some results. >

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:18:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I believe I've found a solution as above. > > I'd say you have found a workaround rather than a solution, but if it > works for you... I've just tried installing Gwenview, I normally use Geeqie. I cropped and saved a PNG, then

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 05:17:21 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > It sounds like the images are fine, just that Gwenview is displaying > > with the wrong colour information. The question then becomes > > does Gwenview save the colour information in the image file or > > separately. If you do have

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
210914 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:07:42 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> So I can avoid the problem either by cropping only with Fotoxx >> or by renaming them whenever I do it with Gwenview >> or by converting PNGs to JPGs before cropping them. > The latter will result in loss of

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:07:42 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Gwenview uses color-management via media-libs/lcms, feh does not. > > See "Rendering intent" and "Color profile" under "Advanced" > > in Gwenview's configure dialog. HTH. > > That cb relevant, but I've explored further & have some

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
210913 David Haller wrote: > Gwenview uses color-management via media-libs/lcms, feh does not. > See "Rendering intent" and "Color profile" under "Advanced" > in Gwenview's configure dialog. HTH. That cb relevant, but I've explored further & have some results. When I crop a JPG image with

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 12 Sep 2021, Philip Webb wrote: >It remains a puzzle. Any further comments from anyone are most welcome. Gwenview uses color-management via media-libs/lcms, feh does not. See "Rendering intent" and "Color profile" under "Advanced" in Gwenview's configure dialog. HTH, -dnh --

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 03:57:55 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> I've tried changing all the various settings in Gwenview config > >> separately, but nothing changes. > > Have you tried logging is as a new user with default Gwenview config? > > > > No : why would that be expected to help ?

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
210913 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:14:11 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've tried changing all the various settings in Gwenview config >> separately, but nothing changes. > Have you tried logging is as a new user with default Gwenview config? No : why would that be expected to

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:14:11 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I've tried changing all the various settings in Gwenview config > separately, but nothing changes. Have you tried logging is as a new user with default Gwenview config? -- Neil Bothwick For security reasons, all text in this mail is

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
210909 Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:25:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> I have cropped some .png images using Gwenview & the reduced versions >> are faded with Gwenview, but fully colored with Feh. >> I've tried using 'convert' to create .jpg versions, >> but while they're

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-09 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:00:50 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:25:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: > > I have cropped some .png images using Gwenview > > & the reduced versions are faded with Gwenview, but fully colored with > > Feh. > > I've tried using 'convert' to

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-09 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:25:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: > I have cropped some .png images using Gwenview > & the reduced versions are faded with Gwenview, but fully colored with Feh. > I've tried using 'convert' to create .jpg versions, > but while they're much smaller in Kbytes (good),

[gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-08 Thread Philip Webb
I have cropped some .png images using Gwenview & the reduced versions are faded with Gwenview, but fully colored with Feh. I've tried using 'convert' to create .jpg versions, but while they're much smaller in Kbytes (good), they're also faded when viewed with Gwenview (Feh ok). Can anyone