Chapter 10.  Color Management with GIMP

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Many devices you use in your design or photography workflow, like digital photo cameras, scanners, displays, printers etc., have their own color reproduction characteristics. If those are not taken into account during opening, editing and saving, harmful adjustments can be done to images. With GIMP you can have reliable output for both Web and print.

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Most of the parameters and profiles described here can be set in the GIMP preferences. Please see Section 1.14, “ Color Management ” for details.

To get best results, you need a color profile for your monitor. If a monitor profile is configured, either system-wide or in the Color Management section of the GIMP Preferences dialog, the image colors will be displayed most accurately.

One of the most important GIMP commands to work with the color management is described in Section 8.8, “ Display Filters ”.

If you do not have a color profile for your monitor, you can create it using hardware calibration and measurement tools. On UNIX systems you will need Argyll Color Management System [ARGYLLCMS] and/or LProf [LPROF] to create color profiles.