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Documentation unclear on how to use custom colorspace

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by locating the documentation page covering color-space options and the custom color-space text box described in the issue. Verify what value the field accepts, then document an example and the expected behavior. Done means users can configure custom color-space without guessing.

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Description

Improvement

there is a custom color-space option, but i have no idea how to use it, it just shows a text box and i don't know what to put inside of it. the documentation doesn't mention custom color-space, i tried checking multiple times

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