[solved] Inverse ICM profile (problems with screenshots on color managed screens)

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Hi,
ever since I’ve started to use color management I’ve encountered an issue on mainly on my laptop monitor: If I take a screenshot of a color managed application (Discord, browser, etc.) the color profile gets “baked in” and the image is assumed to be sRGB. When I open such screenshot, the colors are skewed.

This is not a problem when taking screenshots on my close-to-sRGB monitor, but it is really noticeable if taken on my laptop built-in monitor (57% sRGB btw.) because it needs a strong shift to display anything close to what is should be…

So my question is this – can I make an inversion of my display profile to recover such screenshots? It should theoretically be reversible… And then export such screenshots, idk, using Darktable and such display profile to get colors back to normal?

EDIT: making it easier to read

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  1. Open the screenshot in Gimp.
  2. In the colour management menu, assign the display profile to the image.
  3. Convert to sRGB.
  4. Export/overwite.
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Brilliant! Thank you :ok_hand:

That was my other thought - tell a program what’s the color profile of the image and then somehow get sRGB out of it… but I forgot about GIMP

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