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Krita has always been able to do color management of it's images. I've now begun bringing that technology to the rest of KOffice. This will be another important step in bringing KOffice 2.0 up in the big league.
Color management is a very important feature in a professional setting like printing and web design. To understand what it is all about think of a webdesigner. She sits at her own computer and creates a page with colors that look stunning on her monitor. Unfortunately no two monitors show colors in the same way, so without colormangement it might look quite different when someone else views it on another monitor.
The way color management ensures that colors look the same on both (and indeed every) monitor is through the use of profiles. It's possible to measure the profile of a monitor. So the color management software just have to tweek the rgb triplets so the visual effect is the same.
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| submitted by theobroma on June 4, 2006 | |
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