On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:39 pm, Skip Gaede wrote:
Hi Andy,
I have just discovered that the GIMP can work with color profiles. See http://www.coloraid.de/, which was referenced at http://www.normankoren.com/color_management_3.html
Norman Koren has a web site that discusses a lot of aspects of digital darkroom. To calibrate things, you need a printed color chart, an example of which is the IT8 target. I have seen them sold by Praxisoft for $70.00, but you can get the same chart from Germany for $10.00 US + $5.00 S&H. Check out SCARSE which is a Linux program for scanner profiles.
Hi gang, Thanks for the additional info. I'll take a look at this info shortly. I've also found some information in "Grokking the GIMP" with regard to how to use some features of the GIMP to enhance scanned images. This was most helpful when I discovered that scanning images from a magazine or calendar (printed material) caused a speckling effect to appear in the resulting image. The GIMP has a despeckling filter that removes this rather well in many cases. This entire topic has me wondering if a detailed examination of the features of the GIMP might be a good discussion for a future meeting. There seems to be much more there than originally meets the eye. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org