[Digikam-users] Strange blue tint in digikam-processed photo depends on what program you use to look at it ?

[Gilles Caulier]

Sound like a problem fixed by Marcel in current implementation from
svn (next 1.30).

Which digiKam version you use exactly ?

Gilles Caulier

2010/5/31 Rainer Krienke <krienke at uni-koblenz.de>:
> Hello,
>
> I have a strange problem with a photo thats already some years old and I
> thought everything was fine, up to now. It was taken with a Nikon D80 as jpg
> (not RAW) and later I processed it using digikam.
> I never activated littel CMS in digikam and never convert my photos from sRGB
> to anything else. I am not doinf any color correction in any of my systems
> components at least not to my knowledge. So sRGB should be used everywhere.
>
> The photo:
>
> http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/tmp/blueish.jpg
>
> looks normal when I look at it in digikam, and in eg gwenview. But today I
> uploaded this photo to a webgallery service (zenfolio.com) and there in the
> gallery it had a strong blue tint.
>
> Next I looked at it using bibble5 on my desktop and this also shows a blue
> tint for this photo. Last but not least I activated little CMS in digikam and
> set sRGB as my working profile (which is exactly the same the photo is in) and
> again looked at it in digikam. And now it also has this blue tint. If I
> deactivate little CMS the photo is shown normal again.
>
> Now what do not understand why a photo that is in sRGB can look different in
> digikam with CMS deactivated and activated but set to sRGB and why this photo
> can have a blue tint in the gallery or bibble but not when looking at it using
> gwenview when all agree that this photo is using sRGB.
>
> I am really lost in (color)space. Any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rainer
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