Copyleft Test Image Suite Project

This page is dedicated to host a test suite of copyleft images to use, test on and distribute legally. Basically we want these kinds of images… but under a copyleft license [1], for more freedom of use, in a well organized and maintained set made for various purpose that you choose. We want both high quality composite images prepared for various tasks and original RAW unprocessed images. The collection from Nicolas Robidoux of ImageMagick is a start, but we need more.

The project came from the constatation that in FLOSS and Libre Art communities, it is usually time consuming to find or build a good test image suites. You want to test effects? Color-manipulation algorithms? Test ICC profile conversions, test your color managed monitor? Test a commercial or a home printer? Print an image with colors out of your monitor's color gamut? Any other test case? Then this project is for you.

[1]The expected license should likely be Creative Common - Attribution 4.0 or Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike or even public domain (still to be discussed what licenses can be accepted in the set).

Contribute

The first step is to gather user input. For this project to work, we wish to get as many pertinent inputs as possible.

Name or nickname:

Email (optional, if you write it down, we will keep you updated as the project goes to the next step):

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In your own experience, what did you need test image for, and which kind of images?
What copyrighted or otherwise test images have you downloaded from the internet and found useful?
What kinds of test images have you already put together?
For what particular testing purposes?

As a second step, we will make a call to users to gather images for a good range of tests.

Note: this is a project in the Free Software spirit, which means that even though not about code, everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to discussions. If you are interested to provide input in other ways than this form, drop a message on our mailing list.

Project Details

The project was born out of a contributor discussion on the GIMP's user mailing list.

Elle Stone, Patrick David and Jehan Pagès with the Association LILA took on them to make the project real. We hope that more contributors will join us.

Though the original project was only about the need of a high quality copyleft image suite, we have been discussing much wider contents since then. Among possible resources which were cited: "a pack of properly made ICC profiles", high quality images which could be used as textures of various artworks, or backgrounds (for instance for 3D scenes), maybe even why not some day be able to print a FLOSS "test print for inclusion in calibrations of various types of hardware and pipelines".

For now we focus only on the test suite of copyleft images though. But stay tuned or come to the discussion for more to come!

Communicate

If you want to participate even more actively to the project, you can discuss it on our mailing list. The discussion is completely public.

To subscribe to the mailing list, just send a mail to libregraphics-resources-request@lists.tuxfamily.org with subject "subscribe".