====== Color Profiles ======

The //Color Profiles// preference tool enables you to manage, install and generate color profiles to accurately color manage input (webcams, scanners) and output devices (displays, printers).

<note>Display profiles don't work out of the box in Xfce (yet), you need a daemon like [[https://github.com/agalakhov/xiccd|xiccd]] for them to work.</note>
===== Overview =====

The Xfce Color Profile settings tool is a front-end to set up color management
 for printers, scanners, and displays. It provides an interface for colord 
integration into Xfce. [[https://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/|Colord]]
is a system service that enables you to manage, install and generate color 
profiles to accurately color manage input (webcams, scanners) and output devices.

<figure "Color Profile Dialog Window">
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The Color Profile dialog enables you to:

  *     Enable/disable color management per device
  *     Add or import color profiles per device
  *     Enable a profile and set it as default

What it doesn’t do:

  * Applying display profiles – For this you still need a daemon like [[https://github.com/agalakhov/xiccd|xiccd]].
  *     Calibration – You still have to use a tool, such as, [[https://displaycal.net/|displaycal]] to calibrate your display.
  *     Show detailed profile information (like a horseshoe color diagram). A tool like [[https://www.mankier.com/1/gcm-viewer|gcm-viewer]] is needed for that functionality.

Dependencies:
  * cupsd: For printers
  * saned: For scanners
  * xiccd (etc): For displays
===== Add a color profile =====

<figure "Add a color profile">
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To load a color profile, click on the + (plus) icon on the main Color Profile window. This will bring up a new window called "Add a color profile to Monitor". There you will see a list of profiles compatible with your system. Optionally, clicking on the folder icon in this window, will allow the import of an [[https://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/|ICC]] compatible color profile.
===== Activate a color profile =====

<figure "Enable a color profile">
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Once the color profile(s) has been loaded, they can be enabled and activated or de-activated on a per-device basis.