Getting ready for the GIMP 2.0

Getting ready for the GIMP 2.0

Posted Apr 11, 2004 5:04 UTC (Sun) by gwg (guest, #20811)
In reply to: Getting ready for the GIMP 2.0 by jmalcolm
Parent article: Getting ready for the GIMP 2.0

If I was the product manager for Photoshop, I'd be sleeping easy in regard
to GIMP. While open source code has been available for handling color
properly for a number of years (Little CMS & Argyll), the developers
of GIMP have shown little interest in using it. This perhaps is not
too surprising, when the majority of GIMP use appears to be display
graphics, where everything is RGB, and noone is too worried about
exact color reproduction. It's only those who deal seriously in color
accuracy, and are printing things out all the time, notice the lack
of serious color technology in GIMP. The developers of GIMP shouldn't
feel too bad about it though, many multi-billion dollar companies that
manufacture widely available printers, still don't "get" color. There
are some really good books available to educate developers about color,
but the learning curve is still steep, and few take the time to really
learn enough about it to do useful things.

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