SUMMARY
This article explains how the Katana color picker option, 'Enable Display Transform', works.
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In OCIO you can enable a color picker display transform for gamma corrections of the color picker thumbnail, similar to the Monitor when converting from linear to your Monitor's colorspace. Katana uses the OCIO color picker display transform when the Enable Display Transform option is checked.
The color transformation should be specified under the OCIO configuration file roles section, and you can find more information regarding this on the Config syntax page of the OpenColorIO documentation. the following is an example roles section:
roles:
color_picking: cpf
color_timing: lg10
compositing_log: lgf
data: ncf
default: ncf
matte_paint: vd8
reference: lnf
scene_linear: lnf
texture_paint: dt16
color_picking - Colors in a color-selection UI can be displayed in this space, while selecting colors in a different working space (e.g scene_linear or texture_paint)
Depending on whether you are using Katana's default OCIO configuration or
a custom one, when looking into the configuration file you should see the
specific color transform applied to your color picker.
For example, Katana's default OCIO configuration is nuke-default and the
color picker display transform is set as sRGB. This information can be found
in Katana's installation directory under:
$KATANA_ROOT/etc/ocio/nuke-def
Color transformation logic
Within Katana, with display transform (filmlook) enabled, the raw screen color values provided by the color picker are passed through the processor and returned by the following Python statement:
OCIO.GetCurrentConfig().getProcessor(OCIO.ROLE_COLOR_PICKING, OCIO.ROLE_SCENE_LINEAR)
The color picker works under the assumption that you want to adopt the values that produce the picked screen color when piped through the display transform (if enabled): i.e. that the color preview matches the screen color whether or not the display transform is enabled.
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