[Digikam-users] Color managed view too bright?

[Torsten Crass]

Hi there,

in spite of spending days and weeks on reading on various aspects of 
color management, I still don't quite get the meaning of the "color 
managed view" checkboxes in DigiKams CM settings. What puzzles me in 
particular is the following: I'm using a profiled (using a ColorHug 
device) and calibrated (using xcalib with the derived profile) monitor. 
When viewing a pure black image (generated with imagemagick) in DigiKam 
and activating color managed view, the image is displayed -- brighter! 
Well, admittedly as a *very* dark gray, but definitely brighter than 
with color managed view deactivated. So how can that possibly be? I 
would have thought that sRGB black should stay black, even when 
converted into the monitor's gamut! I mean, the monitor obviously is 
capable of displaying darker colors!

Any ideas?

	Torsten