[argyllcms] Input wanted re digikam color management documentation

Hi all,

As has been noted recently on the Argyll mailing list, color management isn't easy. And for linux users, it's even more difficult because we have to know more. I recently switched from windows to linux and certainly have felt the pain of trying to figure out what to do next. Argyll, fwiw, was the deciding factor in my decision to make the switch from windows to linux - without color management, switching os'es was just out of the question.

It seemed to me that the digikam handbook documentation on color management could use some improvement. So I wrote up a tutorial that has been incorporated into the 9.4 handbook.
Here's a link to the original tutorial posted to the digikam user's group:
http://www.nabble.com/Tutorial%3A-Color-Management%2C-Camera-Profiles%2C---Working-Spaces-to17587858.html#a17587858

Here's a link to the new digikam handbook:

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/0.9.x-releases/digikam_0.9.4.pdf

The tutorial, slightly modified, starts around page 203.

Some of the CM documentation "issues" in the handbook that prompted my tutorial - particularly the part about the digikam color management settings that members of this list have already noted are problematic - still remain. But one step at a time.

Before I send Gerhard my suggested changes, I would absolutely love to get input from you all. I've tried my best to write a good CM tutorial, and I can see ways to improve and add to what I've written. But I thought it would be nice if someone who really knows color management inside and out would read over my tutorial and tell if I've made any really horrible conceptual errors or simply haven't been very clear, or, or, or . . .

Thanks in advance,

Elle Stone


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