output color profile
Technical information
- description
- convert pipeline reference RGB to any display RGB using color profiles to remap RGB values.
- purpose
- mandatory.
- input
- linear or non-linear, Lab, display-referred.
- processing
- defined by profile.
- output
- non-linear, RGB or Lab, display-referred
Manage the output profile for export and the rendering intent to be used when mapping between color spaces.
darktable comes with pre-defined profiles sRGB, Adobe RGB, XYZ and linear RGB. You can provide additional profiles by placing them in $DARKTABLE/share/darktable/color/out (where $DARKTABLE is the darktable installation directory) or color/out in the darktable configuration directory. Note that these color/out directories are not created by the darktable install; if you need to use one, you must create it yourself.
The output color profile may also be defined within the export module.
🔗module controls
- output intent
- The rendering intent for output/export. Rendering intent can only be selected when using LittleCMS2 to apply the output color profile (this can be changed in preferences > processing). If darktable’s internal rendering routines are used, this option is hidden. For more details see rendering intent.
- output profile
- The profile used to render colors for output/export. The profile data will be embedded into the output file (if supported by the file format) allowing other applications to correctly interpret its colors. As not all applications are aware of color profiles, the general recommendation is to stick to sRGB unless you know what you are doing and have a good reason to do otherwise.