are subjective about color representation. CMS If absolute color correction is a high priority for you, you need to get a CMS (Color Management System). CMS systems are available for UNIX. Caldera Graphics Graphics (http:// www.caldera.fr) sells CMS-like systems. Mentalix (http://www.men- talix.com) also provides CMS. These products work for most UNIX systems, including Linux. Other providers exist for UNIX UNIX systems, but we don’t know of anyone else who provides CMS for Linux systems. Color correction kits are expensive. CMS systems are very expensive. However, if you own or work for a commercial company

channel encoding to avoid cer- tain problems with soft proofing a linear gamma image using Little CMS. 5. On a very low-spec machine with not very much RAM, consider using 8-bit integer precision, in ICC color profile that (among other things) tells the Color Management System (in GIMP’s case Little CMS) what color space to use when sending the image to the screen. Sometimes it’s convenient or necessary