Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 15:45 -0300, Gez wrote: There are three possible workflows for print: Early binding: All the assets are converted to CMYK and editing is done in CMYK. The files you send to the print shop are CMYK. Late Binding: Everything is worked in RGB. The print shop converts to

[Gimp-developer] XCF error: unsupported XCF file version 7 encountered

2014-03-12 Thread Elle Stone
I updated glib/babl/gegl/gimp from git a couple of days ago. Then I opened an existing xcf file, worked on it, saved it, and closed GIMP. The next day I couldn't open the xcf file. The error message is: XCF error: unsupported XCF file version 7 encountered I deleted the installation

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF error: unsupported XCF file version 7 encountered

2014-03-12 Thread Michael Natterer
On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 07:59 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: I updated glib/babl/gegl/gimp from git a couple of days ago. Then I opened an existing xcf file, worked on it, saved it, and closed GIMP. The next day I couldn't open the xcf file. The error message is: XCF error: unsupported XCF file

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF error: unsupported XCF file version 7 encountered

2014-03-12 Thread Elle Stone
On 03/12/2014 10:27 AM, Michael Natterer wrote: On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 07:59 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: I updated glib/babl/gegl/gimp from git a couple of days ago. Then I opened an existing xcf file, worked on it, saved it, and closed GIMP. The next day I couldn't open the xcf file. The error

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Elle Stone
On 03/11/2014 02:39 PM, Omari Stephens wrote: That said, I think your question touches on something that I'm pretty ignorant about, which is how color profiles deal with different numbers and types of channels. How monitors can use more than three channels (some already do) to make colors is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Elle Stone wrote: Would there be a use case for editing in n-space (as opposed to soft proofing to an n-space output profile), where n is greater than 4? You mean, like CMYK + PANTONE 877C? Alexandre ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Gez
El mié, 12-03-2014 a las 17:27 -0400, Elle Stone escribió: On 03/11/2014 02:39 PM, Omari Stephens wrote: Hopefully the printer people will correct me if I'm speaking nonsense here. CMYK printer profiles have four channels because ink produces color subtractively, but not perfectly, as

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
[ resending this to the list, at Gez's request :) ] On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 17:43 -0300, Gez wrote: El mié, 12-03-2014 a las 02:19 -0400, Liam R E Quin escribió: On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 15:45 -0300, Gez wrote: Note that the case I mentioned the other day as seeming to be out of scope is when

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Gez
El mié, 12-03-2014 a las 02:19 -0400, Liam R E Quin escribió: On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 15:45 -0300, Gez wrote: Note that the case I mentioned the other day as seeming to be out of scope is when you *are* the print shop, and you (sometimes) receive the cmyk files, or need to edit them. E.g.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Gez
El mié, 12-03-2014 a las 23:35 -0400, Liam R E Quin escribió: [ resending this to the list, at Gez's request :) ] Sorry for the accidental private mail :) Anyway, rather than bitdepth, my comment was about giving the artists a framework to create freely without worrying (much) about the