[gimp-help-2] Add Convert to Color Profile to Color Management menu
- From: Elle Stone <ellestone src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-help-2] Add Convert to Color Profile to Color Management menu
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:04:48 +0000 (UTC)
commit 5dc56155eeb08b11213d8d3507729e79f67bd226
Author: Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>
Date: Tue Apr 4 13:04:40 2017 -0400
Add Convert to Color Profile to Color Management menu
and make some minor changes to image/assign-color-profile.xml and
image/color-management.xml.
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src/menus/image.xml | 1 +
src/menus/image/assign-color-profile.xml | 42 ++--
src/menus/image/color-management.xml | 27 ++-
src/menus/image/convert-to-color-profile.xml | 225 ++++++++++++++++++++
12 files changed, 268 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/src/menus/image.xml b/src/menus/image.xml
index b62505f..8091d1b 100644
--- a/src/menus/image.xml
+++ b/src/menus/image.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
<xi:include href="image/color-management.xml"/>
<xi:include href="image/enable-color-management.xml"/>
<xi:include href="image/assign-color-profile.xml"/>
+ <xi:include href="image/convert-to-color-profile.xml"/>
<!-- separator -->
<xi:include href="image/transform.xml"/>
<xi:include href="image/transform-flip.xml"/>
diff --git a/src/menus/image/assign-color-profile.xml b/src/menus/image/assign-color-profile.xml
index c63227c..db73be6 100644
--- a/src/menus/image/assign-color-profile.xml
+++ b/src/menus/image/assign-color-profile.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE sect2 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
"http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd";>
<!-- section history:
- 2017-04-01 elle stone:
+ 2017-04-03 elle stone: add assign-color-profile.xml
-->
<sect2 id="gimp-image-assign-color-profile">
<title>Assign Color Profile</title>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
</indexterm>
<para>The <guimenuitem>Assign Color Profile</guimenuitem> allows you to
- assign an ICC profile to an image.</para>
+ assign a new ICC profile to an image.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Activating the command</title>
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
profile from disk.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The image might have an embedded sRGB profile, but you
want to assign a GIMP built-in sRGB profile in place of the embedded
- sRGB profile. Or conversely, maybe the image is in the GIMP built-in
+ sRGB profile. Or conversely, maybe the image is in GIMP's built-in
sRGB color space, but you want to assign an sRGB profile from
disk.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
@@ -91,8 +91,11 @@
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Under <guilabel>Current Color Profile</guilabel> is a description
- of the currently assigned color profile, in this case the GIMP built-in
+ of the currently assigned color profile, in this case GIMP's built-in
sRGB profile. Clicking on the "+" icon next to the description of the
currently assigned profile displays the contents of various information
tags in the assigned ICC profile.</para>
@@ -100,16 +103,10 @@
<guilabel>Profile details</guilabel> displays the contents of various
information tags in the ICC profile that you pick to be assigned to
the image. Until you've actually picked a new profile, the
- profile in the <guilabel>Assign</guilabel> box defaults to the
- currently assigned profile.</para>
- <para>Between <guilabel>Assign</guilabel> and
- <guilabel>Profile details</guilabel> is a drop-down box that allows
- you to pick a new profile.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The next screenshot shows example profile descriptions as
- revealed by clicking on the "+" icons:</para>
+ profile in the <guilabel>Assign</guilabel> box defaults to a GIMP
+ built-in sRGB profile.</para>
+ <para>The screenshot below shows example profile descriptions
+ revealed by clicking on the "+" icons:</para>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/assign-2.png" format="PNG"/>
@@ -118,12 +115,11 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Clicking in the drop-down box between <guilabel>Assign</guilabel> and
- <guilabel>Profile details</guilabel> allows
- you to pick a new profile box brings up a
- list of profiles that you've accessed recently, and at the bottom of
- the list is an option to
- <guilabel>Select color profile from disk...</guilabel>:</para>
+ <para>Between <guilabel>Assign</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>Profile details</guilabel> is a drop-down box that allows
+ you to pick a new profile. Clicking in the drop-down box brings up a list
+ of recently used profiles (if any). At the bottom of the list is an option
+ to <guilabel>Select color profile from disk...</guilabel>:</para>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/assign-3.png" format="PNG"/>
@@ -150,6 +146,12 @@
<imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/assign-4.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
+ <para>If the profile you want to select is shown in the list of
+ recently used profiles, the profile can be directly selected from
+ the list of recently used profiles by clicking on the
+ <guilabel>Open</guilabel> button in the lower right corner. However, as
+ the desired profile isn't in the list of recently used profile,
+ the next step is to navigate to the profile's location on disk.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>As shown in the screenshot below, the left and center
diff --git a/src/menus/image/color-management.xml b/src/menus/image/color-management.xml
index 9c11d0a..7222969 100644
--- a/src/menus/image/color-management.xml
+++ b/src/menus/image/color-management.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
<figure>
<title>
- The <quote>Color Management</quote> submenu of the <quote>Image</quote> menu
+ The <quote>Color Management</quote> submenu of the <quote>Image</quote>
+ menu
</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
@@ -31,16 +32,20 @@
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>
- The <guimenuitem>Color Management</guimenuitem> submenu contains commands which
- let you change the ICC color profile associated with an image and also let you save the associated ICC
color profile to disk. There are five options.
+ The <guimenuitem>Color Management</guimenuitem> submenu contains commands
+ which let you change the ICC color profile associated with an image
+ and also let you save the associated ICC color profile to disk. There are
+ five options in the Color Management submenu.
</para>
<sect3>
- <title>Activating the Submenu</title>
+ <title>Activating the <guimenuitem>Color Management</guimenuitem>
+ Submenu</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- You can access this submenu from the image menubar through
+ You can access the <guimenuitem>Color Management</guimenuitem>
+ submenu from the image menubar through
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Image</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Color Management</guimenuitem>
@@ -55,12 +60,20 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- <link linkend="gimp-image-enable-color-management">Enable Color Management</link>
+ <link linkend="gimp-image-enable-color-management">Enable
+ Color Management</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <link linkend="gimp-image-assign-color-profile">Assign Color Profile</link>
+ <link linkend="gimp-image-assign-color-profile">Assign
+ Color Profile</link>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link linkend="gimp-image-convert-to-color-profile">Convert to
+ Color Profile</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
diff --git a/src/menus/image/convert-to-color-profile.xml b/src/menus/image/convert-to-color-profile.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e72df8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/menus/image/convert-to-color-profile.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect2 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
+ "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd";>
+<!-- section history:
+ 2017-04-04 elle stone: add convert-to-color-profile.xml
+-->
+<sect2 id="gimp-image-convert-to-color-profile">
+ <title>Convert to Color Profile</title>
+
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Image</primary>
+ <secondary>Color Management</secondary>
+ <tertiary>Convert to Color Profile</tertiary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Color Management</primary>
+ <secondary>Convert to Color Profile</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Convert to Color Profile</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <para>
+ The <guimenuitem>Convert to Color Profile</guimenuitem> allows you to
+ convert an image from its currently assigned ICC profile to another
+ ICC profile.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Activating the command</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can access this command from the image menu bar through
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Image</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Color Management</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Convert to Color Profile</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>In an ICC profile color managed editing application such as GIMP,
+ every image has an assigned ICC color profile that (among other things)
+ tells the Color Management System (in GIMP's case
+ <ulink url="http://www.littlecms.com/";>Little CMS</ulink>) what color
+ space to use when sending the image to the screen.</para>
+ <para>Sometimes it's convenient or necessary to convert an image from
+ its currently assigned ICC color profile to another ICC color profile.
+ For example:</para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Perhaps you want to convert the image from some other
+ color space to GIMP's built-in sRGB color space.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Perhaps you want to convert the image to a printer
+ profile before sending it out to a printing establishment.
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Perhaps the currently assigned color space is not the
+ right color space for the editing task at hand.</para></listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3>
+ <title>An example with screenshots showing how to use
+ <guimenuitem>Convert to Color Profile</guimenuitem></title>
+
+ <para>Let's say you have just finished editing an image. You edited the
+ image in GIMP's built-in sRGB color space and now you want to convert a
+ flattened copy of the image to a printer profile before sending it
+ off to be printed. The screenshots below show the procedure:</para>
+
+ <orderedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Select
+ "Image/Color Management/Convert to Color Profile" to bring up the
+ <guimenuitem>Convert to ICC Color Profile</guimenuitem> dialog:</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/convert-1.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Under <guilabel>Current Color Profile</guilabel> is a description
+ of the currently assigned color profile, in this case GIMP's built-in
+ sRGB profile. Clicking on the "+" icon next to the description of the
+ currently assigned profile displays the contents of various information
+ tags in the assigned ICC profile.</para>
+ <para>Clicking on the "+" icons next to the words
+ <guilabel>Profile details</guilabel> displays the contents of various
+ information tags in the ICC profile that you pick as the profile to which
+ the image will be converted. Until you've actually picked a new profile,
+ the profile in the <guilabel>Convert to</guilabel> box defaults to a GIMP
+ built-in sRGB profile.</para>
+ <para>The screenshot below shows example profile descriptions
+ revealed by clicking on the "+" icons:</para>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/convert-2.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Between <guilabel>Convert to</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>Profile details</guilabel> is a drop-down box that allows
+ you to pick a new profile. Clicking in the drop-down box brings up a list
+ of recently used profiles (if any). At the bottom of the list is an option
+ to <guilabel>Select color profile from disk...</guilabel>:</para>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/convert-3.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Clicking on <guilabel>Select color profile from disk...</guilabel>
+ brings up the <guimenuitem>Select Destination Profile</guimenuitem>
+ dialog for navigating to the disk location of the profile that you want
+ to select from disk. The box has three panels:</para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem><para>The panel on the left allows you to navigate your
+ on-disk folder structure to the folder of your choice.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>The center panel initially shows another list of
+ recently used profiles.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>If you click on one of the recently used profiles,
+ the right panel will show informational tags that are embedded in
+ the selected profile.</para></listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/convert-4.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ <para>As the desired profile is shown in the list of
+ recently used profiles, the profile can be directly selected from
+ the list of recently used profiles by clicking on the
+ <guilabel>Open</guilabel> button in the lower right corner. Or as shown in
+ the next screenshot,it can be selected by navigating to the profile's
+ location on disk.</para>
+ <note><para>"Destination profile" is the technical
+ term for the profile to which you want to convert your image. Similarly,
+ "source profile" refers to the current ICC color space (the color
+ space the image is already in, before you convert it to the destination
+ profile).</para></note>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>As shown in the screenshot below, the left and center
+ panels of the <guimenuitem>Select Destination Profile</guimenuitem>
+ dialog allow you to navigate to where your ICC profiles are stored on
+ disk, and then pick the desired destination ICC color profile, and the
+ right panel displays informational tags embedded in the selected profile.
+ Click on the <guilabel>Open</guilabel> button to select the
+ "Destination Profile".</para>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/convert-5.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Clicking on the <guilabel>Open</guilabel> button
+ returns you to the <guimenuitem>Convert to ICC Color Profile</guimenuitem>
+ dialog, allowing you a chance to either convert to the selected profile or
+ else pick a new profile:</para>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/convert-6.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </listitem>
+
+
+ <listitem><para>Once you are sure you've picked the right
+ profile, the next step is to select the desired conversion options:</para>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/convert-7.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ <para>Selecting the desired conversion options requires two decisions:</para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Choose a rendering intent from the
+ <guilabel>Rendering Intent</guilabel> drop-down box. The ICC profile
+ rendering intents are:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para><guilabel>Perceptual</guilabel></para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><guilabel>Relative Colorimetric</guilabel></para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><guilabel>Saturation</guilabel></para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><guilabel>Absolute</guilabel></para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Decide whether to use black point compensation:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>To use black point compensation, the
+ <guilabel>Black Point Compensation</guilabel> box should be
+ checked.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To not use black point compensation, the
+ <guilabel>Black Point Compensation</guilabel> box should be
+ unchecked.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ <!--<para>For information about choosing a rendering intent and whether to use black point compensation,
see (page not yet written, should go in the Color Management section of the documentation).</para>-->
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>When you've picked the desired conversion options, click
+ on the Convert button in the lower right corner, and the image will be
+ converted to the selected destination profile, in the current example,
+ an RGB printer profile:</para>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management/convert-before-after.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+</sect2>
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