[Digikam-users] ICC file for Ricoh GXR

[Brian Morrison]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:58:48 +0200
"Martin (KDE)" <kde at fahrendorf.de> wrote:

> > That is not the case, a camera profile is used to modify the colours
> > saved in the RAW file when they are turned into what is displayed
> > on the computer or stored in a colour-corrected TIFF, JPEG etc.   
> 
> Not quite right. The camera profile is used to transfer the data from
> raw processor (after demosaicing ...) into the working colour space
> (that are usually sRGB, prophotoRGB, eciRGB) which are transfered into
> the display (or storage or print) colour space (sRGB, AdobeRGB ...).
> The extra step with the working colour space is used to get a defined
> base for further transformation.

Yes indeed, you added the detail that I decided I would take a long time
to type ;-) Colour spaces can get very confusing...

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Brian Morrison