Re: [Gimp-developer] New Image/Color Management option

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 05/20/2016 02:37 PM, Jason van Gumster wrote:
> Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
>
> > I can't think of a single use case for trying to edit a non-color-manged
> > image in an ICC profile color-managed editing application such as GIMP.
>
> I think I can think of one: creating displacement/bump maps (often used as
> textures in 3D graphics). Often in that case, pixel values aren't treated as
> color, but a numeric non-color data (i.e. it's an instruction to displace
> geometry---or other pixels---by this numeric mapping value).
>
> But perhaps the artists that create these maps are not covered in the audience
> specified in GIMP's vision statement.
In point of fact, the new GIMP color management options do NOT disable 
ICC profile color management.

If you want to disable color management, go into "Edit/Preferences/Color 
Management" and for "Image display mode" select "No color management".

Or you can achieve the same effect by assigning your monitor profile to 
the image file.

However, for your particular use case, you don't really care what the 
image looks like. And with color management disabled what it looks like 
depends on your monitor's display characteristics.

So you might as well leave color management enabled and use the GIMP 
built-in sRGB profile as the image profile.

You can assign the GIMP built-in sRGB profile using "Image/Color 
Management/Assign".

You don't need the new and HIGHLY MISLEADING "Image/Color Management" 
options to assign the GIMP built-in sRGB profile.

Best,
Elle