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| Since 1.4 Krita allows colors to be managed, in KOffice2 all applications allow color management. Why is the usage of this technique useful and what does it actually do?
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| There are other places which explain this very well, so here a list of external sites;
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| [http://www.normankoren.com/color_management.html Color Management intro] lists technical background, why to do it and technical info like [http://www.normankoren.com/color_management.html#Rendering_intent rendering intents]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management Wikipedia] has also provides an introduction to color management.
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| The most common profiles are the profiles defined by the [http://www.color.org/ International Color Consortium], theire website provides a lot of information about color management, like [http://www.color.org/v4spec.html the full specification of the profiles] or [http://www.color.org/technotes.html technical notes] and [http://www.color.org/info_profiles2.html informations about profiles].
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| This application seems to have various interresting ideas;
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| [http://www.gamutvision.com/docs/tour_gamutvision.html Gamutvision]. Especially useful on that page is the 'Profile downloads' section which links to printer manufacturers and ICC profile providers. [http://www.behrmann.name/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=70 iccexamin] is an application which allow the visualisation of icc profiles.
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| To create profile for your devices (monitors or printers) you can use the open source program, [http://lprof.sourceforge.net/ lprof].
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| [http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/color-space-conversion.htm Explanation on the different intent when converting colors.]
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