04-17-2025, 09:58 AM
(04-16-2025, 04:09 PM)KnowNothing Wrote: one comment, and you probably already know this, when you open any photo in windows picture, it seems to edit the photo to show a filtered version. I have found this to be especially true with RAW images. My assumption is that the program is actually showing an embedded JPEG or something like that. When I want to actually see what my real photo looks like I don't use Photo in windows.
Well...I see no reason to NOT see "real photos" using Windows app (Windows Photo Viewer).
The way I do it is simple: calibrate the monitor and set the created profile as a default in Display Settings.
Then the GIMP Color Management settings for Display are:
-Color-Managed Display'
-Monitor profile: set to the profile created by calibration (or 'None', as this will produce the same result)
-open the RAW image, convert to the monitor color profile
-export as whatever (I usually save the file as 16-bit TIFF with saved color profile).
All images are then identical, you see exactly what you are working on in GIMP, the saved image can be viewed again in GIMP or Windows Photo Viewer (or in any other photo editor - like DPP4) - and they look identical.
There are probably better methods - but I am a (very) simple man.