1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<!DOCTYPE sect2 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" 3 "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"> 4<!-- section history: 5 2017-04-01 elle stone: 6--> 7<sect2 id="gimp-image-discard-color-profile"> 8 <title>Discard Color Profile</title> 9 10 <indexterm> 11 <primary>Image</primary> 12 <secondary>Color Management</secondary> 13 <tertiary>Discard Color Profile</tertiary> 14 </indexterm> 15 <indexterm> 16 <primary>Color Management</primary> 17 <secondary>Discard Color Profile</secondary> 18 </indexterm> 19 <indexterm> 20 <primary>Discard Color Profile</primary> 21 </indexterm> 22 <para> 23 <guimenuitem>Discard Color Profile</guimenuitem> discards the image's 24 currently assigned ICC profile, and instead assigns GIMP's 25 built-in sRGB profile. 26 </para> 27 28 <note><para>Assigning a new profile to an image doesn't change the image's 29 actual channel values. Assigning a new ICC profile only changes the meaning 30 of the channel values, which means the image appearance will change (unless 31 the original and new profile are functionally equivalent).</para></note> 32 33 <sect3> 34 <title>Activating the command</title> 35 <para> 36 You can access this command from the image menu bar through 37 <menuchoice> 38 <guimenu>Image</guimenu> 39 <guisubmenu>Color Management</guisubmenu> 40 <guimenuitem>Discard Color Profile</guimenuitem> 41 </menuchoice>. 42 </para> 43 44 <mediaobject> 45 <imageobject> 46 <imagedata fileref="images/menus/image/color-management.png" format="PNG"/> 47 </imageobject> 48 </mediaobject> 49 50 </sect3> 51 52 <sect3> 53 54 <title>Use Notes for <guimenuitem>Discard Color Profile</guimenuitem></title> 55 56 <para> 57 If you discard the image's color profile: 58 </para> 59 <orderedlist> 60 <listitem> 61 <para> 62 The image's <emphasis>appearance</emphasis> will change 63 (unless the image is already in an ICC profile color space that has the 64 same colorants and channel encoding as the newly-assigned GIMP sRGB 65 color space). 66 </para> 67 </listitem> 68 <listitem> 69 <para> 70 The image's <emphasis>channel values</emphasis> are not 71 changed by discarding the currently assigned profile and instead assigning 72 GIMP's built-in sRGB profile. 73 </para> 74 </listitem> 75 </orderedlist> 76 77 <para> 78 Discarding the image's currently assigned profile is useful if 79 you wish to export an image to disk without an embedded ICC profile. 80 </para> 81 82 <para> 83 <guimenuitem>Discard Color Profile</guimenuitem> can only be used 84 if the ICC color profile assigned to the image is not a GIMP built-in 85 sRGB profile. GIMP's built-in sRGB profiles are not embedded in images 86 that are exported to disk. 87 </para> 88 89 </sect3> 90 91</sect2> 92