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Color Management and Photoshop (was: gimp-user-list Digest, Vol 60, Issue 25)

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Color Management and Photoshop (was: gimp-user-list Digest, Vol 60, Issue 25) Klaus Gölker 23 Sep 13:43
Klaus Gölker
2016-09-23 13:43:00 UTC (over 7 years ago)

Color Management and Photoshop (was: gimp-user-list Digest, Vol 60, Issue 25)

Standard color profile for photos and images is none or sRGB. Photoshop imports images from scanners and cameras, which usually produce images based on that standard sRGB. As far as I can remember, even if you create an 24 Bit image in PS, sRGB is used when saving. Another standard is the Adobe proprietary Adobe RGB, which is a "broader", more colorful variety of the standard RGB (sRGB) color profile, mostly used for printing. You can download the Adobe RGB color profile for free from Adobes website (just do a search for Adobe RGB in a searchengine), save it to disc and implement it in GIMP: menu Edit>Preferences>Color Management. If an image is in Adobe RGB, opening the image in GIMP results in a warning message, asking whether you want to keep Adobe RGB or convert it to sRGB. You may try setting Adobe RGB as default in the menu mentioned, or just open your image in Adobe RGB and print.
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Klaus Goelker
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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Color mismatch when an image is printed (Pat David) 2. Re: Color mismatch when an image is printed (James Moe) 3. Re: Error in opening psd files (Steve Kinney) 4. Re: Error in opening psd files (Alexandre Prokoudine) 5. Re: Error in opening psd files (Partha Bagchi)

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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:13:06 +0000 From: Pat David
To: James Moe , gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Color mismatch when an image is printed Message-ID:

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This is a complex problem wrapped in a short-ish email...

Is your monitor calibrated and profiled? Did you also generate a profile for your printer? If not it's not going to be possible to accurately gauge or anticipate what your prints will look like compared to what you see on your monitor. :( On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:34 PM James Moe wrote:

opensuse 42.1
linux 4.1.31-30-default x86_64
gimp 2.8.16

Color profile: sRGB Printer Driver description: EPSON PictureMate PM 225 with driver Epson PictureMate PM 225, Epson Inkjet Printer Driver (ESC/P-R) for Linux

I have a Epson PM225 inkjet color printer.

I have printed images previously with the printer and there was no noticeable difference in color. The printer has been not used for several months. There has likely been some GIMP updates during that time.

Currently, when I print an image that has a blue sky, the printed color has a strong green tint to it, not really close to the displayed blue sky at all. Other images have printed similarly with the green tint.

I have tried changing ink cartridges. No difference.

The online manual mentions that the display uses RGB while printing is CMYK. It does not discuss what to do there is a mismatch between the two.

Any suggestions about what may be done to correct the color issue?

-- James Moe
moe dot james at sohnen-moe dot com
520.743.3936
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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:33:55 -0700 From: James Moe
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On 09/22/2016 09:13 AM, Pat David wrote:

Is your monitor calibrated and profiled? Did you also generate a profile for your printer?

The monitor is not calibrated.
How do I create a profile for a printer?

If not it's not going to be possible to accurately gauge or anticipate what your prints will look like compared to what you see on your monitor. :(

Well that may be.
It does not explain the printer's distinct color shift when it was previously mostly correct.
Previously: blue printed as blue.
Currently: blue prints as green-ish.

-- James Moe
moe dot james at sohnen-moe dot com
520.743.3936
Think.

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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:48:29 -0400 From: Steve Kinney
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Error in opening psd files Message-ID:
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On 09/19/2016 04:48 PM, enzoorsi wrote:

But now in GIMP the colors seem different from Photoshop when I am

exporting in

PNG/JPEG :(

The GIMP and Photoshop use different color models: RBG in the GIMP and LAB (if I recall correctly) in Photoshop. Color conversions between the two will be, at best, approximate.

:o/

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Message: 4 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:03:12 +0300 From: Alexandre Prokoudine
To: "gimp-user-list@gnome.org"
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Ross Martinek wrote:

PS has a number of different color standards (some Adobe?s proprietary

materials)

Any examples?

Alex

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Message: 5 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:02:49 -0400 From: Partha Bagchi
To: "gimp-user-list@gnome.org"
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Error in opening psd files Message-ID:

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Ross Martinek wrote:

PS has a number of different color standards (some Adobe?s proprietary

materials)

Any examples?

Alex

What's a color standard? Do you mean ICC profiles? What's proprietary

material here?

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