(See the Microsoft Windows SDK for more information.) The application enables ICM by a call to a Win32 GDI ICM function, such as SetICMMode. The application sends the image to Win32 GDI. If ICM is enabled, Win32 GDI uses the monitor profile to translate the colors in the image. Win32 GDI sends the image to kernel-mode GDI.
Kernel-mode GDI formats the image for the display driver, based on such device characteristics of the device context (DC) as bit depth, resolution, and halftoning.
#How to install icc profile on monitor driver#
The display driver (or video hardware) performs gamma correction to the image.By default, GIMP comes with one ICC (International Color Consortium) profile preloaded and that is sRGB. While this color space works well for images you wish to view on a screen, its color gamut (range of colors) is more lacking than, say, Adobe 1998 or Pro Photo. As a simple means of diagramming this, the image at left, from the Adobe whitepaper A Color Managed Raw Workflow by Jeff Schewe and Bruce Fraser, shows how each gamut can reproduce only a certain segment of the total visible color spectrum. Using a gamut that allows for a larger color representation allows for more accurate colors when printing. And while the full range of the Pro Photo RGB gamut can’t be faithfully reproduced on most consumer monitors today, using a larger gamut does aid in more accurate color printing.
It’s not necessary to use the Pro Photo RGB gamut for all your editing, Adobe 1998 RGB does a pretty good job.
#How to install icc profile on monitor how to#
This article is about showing you how to use any ICC profile you’d like in GIMP and then the choice can be yours.
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