[Digikam-users] color profile input: a question

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at kdemail.net
Fri Sep 1 09:58:51 BST 2006


Le Vendredi 1 Septembre 2006 10:45, Heiner Lamprecht a écrit :
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:15, F.J.Cruz wrote:
> >  There are 2 options:
> >
> > - Your camera is doing the conversion from and unknown profile to
> > adobeRGB and is embedding this one into the image.
> >
> > - Your camera isn't doing the conversion, but it's embedding such
> > icc profile.
> >
> > In my modest opinnion, if you are working with RAW images, then
> > there is no conversion and the profiles is embedding only.
>
> Right.  But I don't work with RAW, as my camera is terribly slow in
> saving RAW images.  Therefore I normally take JPGs.  As far as I
> can see, the camera does the conversion.  Otherwise I would assume,
> to see more difference when opening the image with other non-CMS
> programs, right?
>
> What does digikam, when opening an image with a profile embedded?
> Is this profile used?
>

digiKam check if this embedded profile is the same than default profile set in 
ICC configuration. If no, digiKam ask to user about to use the default 
profile instead the embeded, else emdeded profile is used.

Gilles



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