Jeff Monks wrote: > Adam Maas said: > >> I'd tend to disagree. Until Linux has decent colour management >> capabilities, it's not really a good platform for photo editing since >> you will not be able to adequately profile your display. > > That's the difference between "Linux is becoming a decent platform for photo > editing" and "Linux is a professional-quality photo editing platform". I > tried > to choose my words carefully... <grin> > > Color management in Linux is a weak spot for photo work, though, I'll > agree. Projects like Little CMS and Argyll CMS are very promising, but more > applications need to support them and better overall integration/configuration > is needed. Linux color management is kind of where font support was a > couple years ago - it's there, but not for the faint of heart, and > somewhat limited in scope. >
I don't consider Colour Management to be a professional requirement anymore, but rather a must for anyone doing moderate editing. With profiling hardware/software packages running under $100 these days, anyone who wants consistent, predictable prints can have a profiled setup. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
