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ICM-aware image viewer?
Hi!
Are there any [free] ICM-Aware picture/image/photo viewers out there? I have just calibrated my monitor and now only Photoshop supports color management. Are there any free programs, like IrfanView, that support color management, namely monitor profiles? Thanks, Miha. |
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ICM-aware image viewer?
What you see on your monitor is what you see on your monitor.
A calibration program, e.g. Monaco or Spyder, inserts itself into the video card driver before any program shows you anything. Many programs will open tif, jpeg and even psd files as long as they are recorded in a recognizable manner, which primarily means sRGB or AdobeRGB. I am not aware of any programs that will recognize a tiff file that Photoshop records with a non-standard profile like LAB or CMYK. Why you would want a cheapie program to view or interconvert unusual profiles, which may cause irreversible loss of data from the image by the conversion, is something I do not understand. |
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ICM-aware image viewer?
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:00:49 GMT, "bmoag" wrote:
What you see on your monitor is what you see on your monitor. A calibration program, e.g. Monaco or Spyder, inserts itself into the video card driver before any program shows you anything. Many programs will open tif, jpeg and even psd files as long as they are recorded in a recognizable manner, which primarily means sRGB or AdobeRGB. I am not aware of any programs that will recognize a tiff file that Photoshop records with a non-standard profile like LAB or CMYK. Why you would want a cheapie program to view or interconvert unusual profiles, which may cause irreversible loss of data from the image by the conversion, is something I do not understand. I'm with you except for this part: does the viewer read the image file's workspace tag and adjust the RGB values accordingly? In what way would an AdobeRGB file be treated differently from an sRGB file? rafe b www.terrapinphoto.com |
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ICM-aware image viewer?
On 18 Apr 2006 13:41:07 -0700, wrote:
Hi! Are there any [free] ICM-Aware picture/image/photo viewers out there? I have just calibrated my monitor and now only Photoshop supports color management. Are there any free programs, like IrfanView, that support color management, namely monitor profiles? Faststone image viewer supports color management and works for jpeg and tiff files that have embedded profiles. I am currently running v2.5b2. A very nice feature rich free viewer, I might add. www.faststone.org -- jimbok |
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ICM-aware image viewer?
On 19 Apr 2006 06:05:50 -0700, wrote:
jimbok, thanks for the tip. Raphael, I will also take a look at XnView, if it is ICM aware. As far as I can tell, it is *not*. But I still use it. I can't speak for other image browsers. jimbok says Faststone is ICC-aware. I have that also, but I'm less familiar with it. Like XnView, it's free. rafe b www.terrapinphoto.com |
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ICM-aware image viewer?
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:02 -0400, Raphael Bustin
wrote: I can't speak for other image browsers. jimbok says Faststone is ICC-aware. I have that also, but I'm less familiar with it. Like XnView, it's free. I should have mentioned that you have to turn on color management in Faststone's "settings" menu. It is not the default setting. -- jimbok |
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ICM-aware image viewer?
Raphael Bustin wrote:
I'm with you except for this part: does the viewer read the image file's workspace tag and adjust the RGB values accordingly? In what way would an AdobeRGB file be treated differently from an sRGB file? You're right, the monitor profile is used by the OS for EVERY application once it's calibrated but most viewers assume the image is sRGB and don't understand or even look at the color tags so aRGB images aren't displayed correctly, they are displayed like they were sRGB ones. That's why I tell people I teach, if you don't understand color management well or really need aRGB, stick with sRGB. It makes life a lot less complex! -- Stacey |
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