ICC profile changes

Cyrille Berger Skott cberger at cberger.net
Sun Jan 22 09:40:35 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Friday 20 Jan 2012, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> the scRGB.icm profile has a linear gamma from 0.0 ... 1.0 . The ICC site 
> says, the value range starts from -0.5 and goes till 7.5 for 16-bit.
> But using this profile on 16-bit data in Krita would mean a value range 
> from 0.0 till 1.0 like traditional LDR. Would it be easier to name this 
> profile "linear sRGB" or something like this?

Or extend the linear gamma to -0.5 to 7.5 ? No ? As far as krita is concerned, 
since we use it only with integers, we are always in the range 0.0 ... 1.0, so 
whether the profile is linear in the range -0.5 ... 7.5  or 0.0 ... 1.0 does 
not matter much for us.

-- 
Cyrille Berger Skott


More information about the kimageshop mailing list