[interfacekit] Re: Color Management

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>I'd like to respond to your reasonable question by asking a stupid 
>question -- what, exactly, do we need a color management system for?  I 
>mean, I know we need one, but I have no idea why. =P  Outside of tuning 
>output for Pantone and the like, what the heck are they used for?
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>e
WYSIWYG with respect to color doesn't actually happen without color 
management. For those of us in graphics, it's quite important to have the 
photo you're editing to be printed out in a way that it looks just like the 
way it did on the screen. Without color management, the printout will look 
different from the one on the screen. It's because of the color models - the 
screen using RGB and the ink using CMYK. If you go to this link (use Net+, 
Opera doesn't like the site) http://www.creoscitex.com/products/color/
profile_wizard/index.asp and look at the images, you'll see what I'm talking 
about. This kind of color correction is necessary also because even in the 
realm of monitors, color production is different. It tends to seem rather 
nitpicky to most users, but if we want serious graphics done under OpenBeOS, 
we will have to have it.

R5 used Kodak's management system, so using that is right out the window. I 
did some more looking, and I did find a non-GPL manager, BUT it's LGPL. 
What's the difference between LGPL?

--DW

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