6.8. Color Management

6.8. Color Management
	6. The “Image” Menu

	Note
For color display related view settings, see Section 5.12, “Colour Management”. For GIMP's general Color Management preferences, see Section 6.4, “Color Management”.

Note

For color display related view settings, see Section 5.12, “Colour Management”.

For GIMP's general Color Management preferences, see Section 6.4, “Color Management”.

The Color Management submenu contains commands which let you change the ICC color profile associated with an image, save the associated ICC color profile to disk, set soft-proofing profile and options, and enable or disable black point compensation. The following commands are available in the Color Management submenu.

6.8.1. Activating the Color Management Submenu

You can access this command from the main menu through Image → Color Management.

6.8.2. The Contents of the “Color Management” Submenu

Use sRGB Profile
Assign Color Profile
Convert to Color Profile
Discard Color Profile
Save Color Profile to File
Soft-proof Profile

None is the choice by default. The drop-down list offers the possibility of Select color profile from disk….
Soft-Proofing Rendering Intent

Four modes are available: “Perceptual”, “Relative colorimetric”, “Saturation” and “Absolute colorimetric”. Try them all and choose what looks the best.
Black Point Compensation

Try with and without black point compensation and choose what looks best.