Color Management preferences

All color management options are stored in the scene file unless noted otherwise.

Enable Color Management: Turns color management on or off. Use the other options to control how color management is applied.
Use OCIO configuration: Uses the color spaces and transforms defined in an OpenColorIO configuration file. To allow this option to be activated, first set OCIO config path to a valid OpenColorIO configuration file. When this option is activated and OCIO config path is set to a valid configuration file, the built-in options for Working Space and View Transform are replaced by the options defined in the file.
OCIO config Path: The absolute path and name of an OpenColorIO configuration file to use for color management when Use OCIO configuration is activated.

Note: If the OCIO environment variable is set, then both Enable Color Management and Use OCIO configuration are activated on startup, on scene load, and for new scenes. In addition, OCIO config path is set to the path defined by the environment variable.

Color Transform Preferences

Rendering Space: Choose the working color space in which rendering is performed. Images such as 2D File textures get converted automatically from their input color spaces to this color space for rendering. See Choose a rendering space.
View Transform: Choose the default color transfomr to apply for viewing images in the Render View and Viewport 2.0. Color values are automatically converted from the working space to the space selected here for previewing only. See Choose the default View Transform.; No matter what viewing space you select, you can temporarily select a different one or even disable the view transform in the Render View and Viewport 2.0 toolbars. This is useful, for example, if you want to quickly check the raw color values.

Input Color Space Preferences

Default Input Color Space: The default value of Color Space to use for new color-managed nodes in the scene, such as File texture nodes and image planes. Set this option to the color space used by the majority of your texture files.; No matter what color space that you are using as the default input space, you can always specify a different input color space for individual color-managed nodes. This is useful, for example, if most of your textures are sRGB but you are also using scanned film in DPX format as image planes for background plates.

Output Color Transform Preferences

These options are also available in the Color Management group of the Common tab of the Render Settings window.

Apply Output Transform

Applies the selected Output Transform to convert from the working space after rendering. For more information see http://beehive.autodesk.com/community/service/rest/cloudhelp/resource/cloudhelpchannel/guidcrossbook/jsonp?v=2015&p=MAYALT&l=ENU&guid=GUID-115A5BCB-5B99-41A5-BA1C-D055E7068157.

In general, you should:

Turn this option on if you are rendering images for preview that will be displayed using a device or viewing software that does not apply the appropriate view transform to scene-linear images.
Turn this option off if you are rendering final images for compositing or other tasks that require scene-linear color values.

Note that when an output transform is applied, the Render View still applies the view transform by default. Turn off the view transform in the Render View to avoid applying a double transform.

Output Transform

Choose the color space to convert rendered images into. After the rendering is complete, a transform is applied to convert images from the rendering color space to the space specified here.

Transform Directory/LUT Path

User Transform/LUT Directory Path: The disk location for storing user-defined references to third-party color transforms. See Work with user color transforms.; This path should always point to a valid directory. If you do not want to load any user transforms, enter the path of an empty directory.

UI Settings

This option is stored in the user settings, not in the scene file.

Enable Color Managed Pots: Enables color management for color controls, including solid colors and ramps. You can also set this using Show > Show Color Managed Pots in the Attribute Editor.

Export or Load Color Management Preferences from XML File

Enter the full path and name of an external color management preferences file to use when creating or loading scenes. See Use color management policies (external preference files).

Export CM Pref: Exports the current color management settings as an external preferences file.