[Digikam-users] R Digikam - Darktable workflow - Color profile

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

2012/1/3 Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>

>
> Well, it all depends on what you need: if all you want is to be sure that
> what
> you see on screen is as close as possible to what you will get in print,
> you
> can ignore camera calibration. That's when you can modify the colours to
> your
> liking
>

You're right. I have no other need.


>
> However, if you need exact colours (i.e. what you get in print is what you
> actually could see when taking the picture), you'll need to calibrate your
> camera as well. The response of your sensor/filter screen is not ideal, so
> you'll have to correct for any deviation from the ideal behaviour. This is
> especially important for portraits (skin colours being rather sensitive to
> errors), and could be important for certain scientific applications.
>
> Remco
>
>
I understand what you mean for scientific applications. As for portraits,
the photograph has some discretion to interpret what he/she has
seen/captured and might want to tune colours.

Marie-Noëlle

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