[Digikam-devel] Color Management plugin??

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Lundi 14 Novembre 2005 13:11, fj.cruz at supercable.es a écrit :
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've been thinking about to write a plugin for basics color managment
> actions (assign icc profile/convert by applying a icc color profile to an
> image) using de libs from Littlecms project, which I've used to code a
> little kfile plugin
> (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=30274) to request some
> info from icc/icm files.

Yes littlecms is very easy to use for that.

>
> But I've read in this list some messages ( [Digikam-devel] [Bug 103176]
> thread) talking about "(...) to support color management in a remote
> future(...)" and "(...)using a dedicaced color management lib(...)", so I
> don't know if this is the right time to write this plugin.

Well actually, i'm working on DImage implementation, a new image framework 
used to load/write images in 8/16 bits/color/pixel. The only way to apply 
icc/icm profils to an image is with linear 16 bits/color/pixel PPM image 
generated by dcraw to read RAW image files. 

I have planed to use littlecms for that and added a new setup option about RAW 
files managment to fix color rendering in image editor using a default 
ICM/ICC profil. 

Sure a new plugin to apply ICC/ICM profil can be written instead, but i'm not 
sure that the right way. I would have more viewpoints about...

Gilles