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Offline sreilly

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Color Management setup
« on: 2014 March 18 13:13:16 »
Is there any reference to properly setting up color management settings? I see differences when looking at images using PS and PI and this must be the reason for those differences. Images look much lighter in PSCS5.

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Offline Juan Conejero

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Re: Color Management setup
« Reply #1 on: 2014 March 18 14:31:46 »
On Windows and Mac OS X, PixInsight will detect your monitor profile automatically. If your monitor profile is correct there should be no problems with the default settings.

When you generate JPEG or PNG images for web deployment, make sure that they embed the correct color profiles. The correct profile is the one that describes the color space to which pixel values are actually referred. To maximize browser compatibility, your images should be transformed, if necessary, to the sRGB color space and embed the sRGB profile. Use the ICCProfileTransformation tool and the standard "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" profile.

If you apply aggressive color saturation transformations, you can use the color proofing and gamut check functionality of PixInsight to control out-of-gamut pixel values. This is especially important if you plan to print your images. Specify your printer/paper color profile as the proofing profile (ColorManagementSetup tool) and enable color proofing (Ctrl+F11 on Windows) to see how your image will look like when printed. Enable gamut check (Shift+F11) to detect out-of-gamut pixels.
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Re: Color Management setup
« Reply #2 on: 2014 March 19 09:54:54 »
Juan,
I have a high gamut calibrated screen using Xrite Display.
Pixinsight correctly selects the Monitor Profile (Edit/ColorManagementSetup).  But my experience is that the Default Profiles is also set to the monitor profile by default, at least if I re-install PI from scratch or initialize settings.
 
My understanding is that the Edit/ColorManagementSetup/Default Profile should be set to the an ICC profile adequate for the image (sRGB or possibly some higher gamut profile), but NOT left to the hardware profile. I make sure that it is properly initialized after each update.
Even if it is just a default, having it correct avoids some mistake IMHO.
Anything I misunderstood ?
-- bitli