This chapter looks at International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles and provides a technical explanation to their internal structure and operations. It provides a brief computer science review of binary, decimal, and hexadecimal systems. The chapter describes the header and tags found in scanner, monitor, and printer profiles. The chapter also describes some of the changes that have occurred as profiles evolve from version2 to version4, and to the new iccMAX v5 profiles. Profile inspectors are special software tools that can be used to view the contents of a profile. The chapter utilizes two free utilities ‐ ColorSync Utility (macOS) and ICC Profile Inspector (Windows) to view the contents of ICC profiles. An excellent, commercial product, Chromix ColorThinkPro is also used in some examples. Lookup tables are fundamental to color management. Finally, the chapter presents a practical example to clearly demonstrate the operation of a lookup table.
Inside Profiles
Understanding Color Management ; 121-145
2018-07-18
25 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
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Online Contents | 1998