{"id":4544,"date":"2012-11-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=a7f2fa47aefba3d98e7efb7d292f3cef"},"modified":"2012-11-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:00:00","slug":"gimp-gets-icc-v4-color-profiles-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"GIMP Gets ICC v4 Color Profiles\u00a0Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few weeks <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> has been capable of using <span class=\"caps\">ICC<\/span> v4 color profiles thanks to a patch by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurentmartelli.com\/\">Laurent Martelli<\/a> who ported the color management plug-in to use LittleCMS&nbsp;v2.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an ongoing work by <a href=\"http:\/\/ninedegreesbelow.com\/\">Elle Stone<\/a> to adapt that plug-in to the new <span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span>-based architecture and make color space conversions just work between various bit depth precision levels \u2014 from 8-bit to 32-bit floating&nbsp;point.<\/p>\n<p>Once it&#8217;s done, <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> will be capable of converting images between different color spaces with little to no loss of color fidelity. In fact, it already works, with some&nbsp;caveats.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Michael Natterer is busy porting plug-ins for loading and saving files to <span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">GIO<\/span>. The latter means that <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> doesn&#8217;t create temporary files anymore when loading files from remote locations, and previews in the Open File dialog 100% match actual&nbsp;images.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a lot of work to do before <span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span>-based version of <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> is completely functional. We encourage you to join the team and help making the future&nbsp;closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few weeks <span>GIMP<\/span> has been capable of using <span>ICC<\/span> v4 color profiles thanks to a patch by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurentmartelli.com\/\">Laurent Martelli<\/a> who ported the color management plug-in to use LittleCMS&nbsp;v2.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an ongoing work by <a href=\"http:\/\/ninedegreesbelow.com\/\">Elle Stone<\/a> to adapt that plug-in to the new <span>GEGL<\/span>-based architecture and make color space conversions just work between various bit depth precision levels &mdash; from 8-bit to 32-bit floating&nbsp;point.<\/p>\n<p>Once it&rsquo;s done, <span>GIMP<\/span> will be capable of converting images between different color spaces with little to no loss of color fidelity. In fact, it already works, with some&nbsp;caveats.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Michael Natterer is busy porting plug-ins for loading and saving files to <span>GEGL<\/span> and <span>GIO<\/span>. The latter means that <span>GIMP<\/span> doesn&rsquo;t create temporary files anymore when loading files from remote locations, and previews in the Open File dialog 100% match actual&nbsp;images.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a lot of work to do before <span>GEGL<\/span>-based version of <span>GIMP<\/span> is completely functional. We encourage you to join the team and help making the future&nbsp;closer.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4544\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-floss","category-imaging","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-1bi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}