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Tech Tip - Use ICC color profiles
16 years ago
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ICC – International Color Consortium
An international standard for matching color from one imaging device to another.
These profiles exist to ensure consistent presentation between devices.
Example: the colors of an image on your display should look the same when printed out on a photo printer.
1 or more ICC profiles exist for most (if not all) displays, printers, scanners, cameras, iPhones, etc.
Example: my scanner has 3 – positive, negative (for film) and glossy; printers can even have profiles for different paper stocks.
One of the most common complaints I see from artists online is “my scanner/camera turned the color blah” or something to that equivalent.
This is most often caused by the scanner not having the correct color profile assigned to it.
Example: MS Windows does not automatically assign manufacturer ICC profiles to devices (see Windows Help and support “ICC” for the FAQ and How to)
Where do you get them?:
Most often they are automatically loaded by driver software (just not necessarily assigned).
If they aren’t already on your system they can usually be found online without too much hassle; just use the manufacturer, model number and “ICC profile” in the search term.
Additionally art and imaging software (Adobe, Corel, etc.) use and allow custom selection of ICC profiles.
An international standard for matching color from one imaging device to another.
These profiles exist to ensure consistent presentation between devices.
Example: the colors of an image on your display should look the same when printed out on a photo printer.
1 or more ICC profiles exist for most (if not all) displays, printers, scanners, cameras, iPhones, etc.
Example: my scanner has 3 – positive, negative (for film) and glossy; printers can even have profiles for different paper stocks.
One of the most common complaints I see from artists online is “my scanner/camera turned the color blah” or something to that equivalent.
This is most often caused by the scanner not having the correct color profile assigned to it.
Example: MS Windows does not automatically assign manufacturer ICC profiles to devices (see Windows Help and support “ICC” for the FAQ and How to)
Where do you get them?:
Most often they are automatically loaded by driver software (just not necessarily assigned).
If they aren’t already on your system they can usually be found online without too much hassle; just use the manufacturer, model number and “ICC profile” in the search term.
Additionally art and imaging software (Adobe, Corel, etc.) use and allow custom selection of ICC profiles.
64 bits of color is extraordinary – but the size and price of the displays is way outside workable for independents.
Because of the similarities with sRGB (the standard used for computers) as long as you’ve been coloring digitally the palette that you’ve come up with so far should be very close if not spot-on already.
It depends on the color profile you’re using.
If you are using Adobe it’s like it’s defaulting to the Adobe color space and that is fairly consistent.