Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

[Øyvind Kolås <pippin gimp org>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Elle Stone
<ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
> > > Tying GIMP to "sRGB as PCS" is a dead-end move.
> >
> > If you take "spectrally based reproduction" as an argument against "sRGB
> > as PCS" you should be at least be so fair to also mention that *any* RGB
> > based image editing is bound to fail for this.
>
> In point of fact, I've already said thist. But I'm happy to say it again.
> RGB data is not spectral data.

As a former researcher at a national color science laboratory, and a
major contributor to babl and GEGL; I probably have no idea about
these things – and how the spectral data in named color ICCv4 profiles
might be used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKpaXu87Coo

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