Building a library of ICC profiles

[Richard Hughes]

On 12 February 2010 10:54, Pedro Côrte-Real <pedro at pedrocr.net> wrote:
> Is there any package that collects free (as in speech) ICC profiles? I
> see that Pascal's PPA has one printer, one camera and two or three
> displays. Are these just the ones you did yourself Pascal?

There's http://github.com/hughsie/shared-color-profiles which may be
of interest to you.

> I'd be more than happy to add the profiles I've been doing for the
> printer and monitor to some repository so that users without a
> calibration instrument can just use a profile from the library. I
> already have profiles for a Dell U2410 and an Epson R2880 with Glossy
> Epson paper. I'll be adding more papers to that too.

I'm not so sure submitting user-generated profiles makes so much
sense, I mean, your Epson R2880 probably has a quite different
response to my (hypothetical) Epson R2880.

If people think this is a good idea, I'd be wiling to set something
like this up, as lets face it, a profile that is 3% off correct is
better than no profile at all.

> One thing I
> haven't done yet is profiling my camera. How is that done and what is
> the benefit? I have a Sony A700 DSLR.

That's something you really want to do. We probably want to add a
whole load of text in the help file in how to do this (sunny day, etc)
but using GCM the process itself should be pretty easy.

Richard.