I was a bit confused about how to pick the correct ICC profile for me. After all, my printer at home is a unique piece of hardware with ink pigments that have physical limitations on how many colors they can create, and the paper you use influences what the colors end result is, too. I searched and searched online, hoping to find a repository of ICC files for a specific printer model, or even a specific brand of printer ink. I found some that were for specific types of paper, but I knew that they weren't actually representative of what my printer would do. Finally, I read enough articles to understand. The only ICC you can really trust is one you create yourself by printing off specific types of test pages that have a wide variety of colors on them and comparing them to a control sample using a spectrumograph* (or whatever the heck its called). An ICC profile is specific to the printer, ink, and paper type combination. Its basically like a DNA for color accuracy. Who the heck has the time for that? With how much printing happens in the world, you'd think there would be a "close enough" repository of ICCs that are free to access, either by requiring printer manufacturers to give a "default" profile for their printer and the most common ink cartridges for them or from some sort of artist union. We should be at the point where you can search your printer model, download a "close enough" ICC, and go on living your life. As it stands, I can't really trust the ICC profile for some random paper type, such as Epson Ultra Matte Heavy. I'm printing custom card designs from a 10 year old canon with costco ink on dollar store paper. Im not gonna make my own ICC for that. It leaves me wondering, how different are most cmyk (AKA physical ink) ICC profiles from one another, really? Is any cmyk based ICC close enough for an average Joe to work with?
Hi Mike, could you do a tutorial on the different colour spaces available, like gamma, linear, ACES and other ones, what they do and why you would chose one over another.
Thank you for this tutorial... The first time I executed this gamut check, the colors were fully highlighted in pink as your in your demo, but now when I do it I only get a thin dotted outline along the perimeter of colors that are out of gamut... Do you know what could be causing this?
Not sure what I am doing wrong, but when I try to show out of gamut colors, I get black dots on the image rather than the purple shown in preferences. Now the thumbnail view at the top shows that purple color. Using Gimp 2.10.20 rev 1.
Unfortunately, I am unable to follow your instructions as you make reference to something that is not in my version of Gimp, which is 2.10.22. I have pics to show, but am not able to attach here.
This made zero sense to me? I am editing a png and it HAS the gamut warning despite mine being turned off - I cannot pick plain white and or remove the ridiculous corner warning . . help pls! [Thank you!]
i always thought it was a monitor calibration problem thank you
I was a bit confused about how to pick the correct ICC profile for me. After all, my printer at home is a unique piece of hardware with ink pigments that have physical limitations on how many colors they can create, and the paper you use influences what the colors end result is, too. I searched and searched online, hoping to find a repository of ICC files for a specific printer model, or even a specific brand of printer ink. I found some that were for specific types of paper, but I knew that they weren't actually representative of what my printer would do.
Finally, I read enough articles to understand. The only ICC you can really trust is one you create yourself by printing off specific types of test pages that have a wide variety of colors on them and comparing them to a control sample using a spectrumograph* (or whatever the heck its called). An ICC profile is specific to the printer, ink, and paper type combination. Its basically like a DNA for color accuracy.
Who the heck has the time for that? With how much printing happens in the world, you'd think there would be a "close enough" repository of ICCs that are free to access, either by requiring printer manufacturers to give a "default" profile for their printer and the most common ink cartridges for them or from some sort of artist union. We should be at the point where you can search your printer model, download a "close enough" ICC, and go on living your life.
As it stands, I can't really trust the ICC profile for some random paper type, such as Epson Ultra Matte Heavy. I'm printing custom card designs from a 10 year old canon with costco ink on dollar store paper. Im not gonna make my own ICC for that.
It leaves me wondering, how different are most cmyk (AKA physical ink) ICC profiles from one another, really? Is any cmyk based ICC close enough for an average Joe to work with?
Hi Mike, could you do a tutorial on the different colour spaces available, like gamma, linear, ACES and other ones, what they do and why you would chose one over another.
Yes! There are a few technical topics like this I'd like to delve into. Thanks for the reminder.
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Thank you so much!
Thank you for this tutorial... The first time I executed this gamut check, the colors were fully highlighted in pink as your in your demo, but now when I do it I only get a thin dotted outline along the perimeter of colors that are out of gamut... Do you know what could be causing this?
Not sure what I am doing wrong, but when I try to show out of gamut colors, I get black dots on the image rather than the purple shown in preferences. Now the thumbnail view at the top shows that purple color. Using Gimp 2.10.20 rev 1.
Unfortunately, I am unable to follow your instructions as you make reference to something that is not in my version of Gimp, which is 2.10.22. I have pics to show, but am not able to attach here.
This made zero sense to me? I am editing a png and it HAS the gamut warning despite mine being turned off - I cannot pick plain white and or remove the ridiculous corner warning . . help pls! [Thank you!]
Hey Mike I got question I'm using GIMP 2.10.18 here's my problem every time I open GIMP I have to install GMIC is this right?
No, probably bug.
I've noticed the mouse you use. What is it?
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