Information on profiles
The following documents are provided as a service to the colour community. They are for informational purposes only. Most have been published elsewhere, and the fact that they appear here should not be construed as an endorsement by the ICC or its members.
- Recent publications
- Introductory
- ICC profile format
- Displays
- Characterized printing
- Proofing
- Workflow
- General
- Digital photography
- Standards
- Case studies
- Academic
Introductory
- Tutorial on Color Management
James C. King Adobe Systems Inc. - Tutorial on ICC Color Management for Print Production
W. Craig Revie - Orchestrating Color
David Q. McDowell (First published in ISO Focus Nov 2004) - What's New from the ICC?
David Q. McDowell (First published in 'Gravure' April 2002)
ICC profile format
- Issues Encountered in Creating
a Version 4 ICC sRGB Profile
Kok-Wei Koh, Ingeborg Tastl, Mary Nielsen, David M. Berfanger, Huanzhao Zeng and Jack Holm Hewlett Packard Labs - Revealing ICC Color Management: Version 4
Rendering Intents, Profile Connection Space
Ann L. McCarthy Xerox - Building ICC Profiles - the Mechanics and Engineering, 01/2000
Dawn Wallner Sun Microsystems
- Profiling a color display without changing its calibration state
Glenn Davis and Craig Revie
- Method for Calibration of a Printing System With Digital Data Using Near-Neutral Scales
David Q. McDowell - Reference Printing Conditions
David Q. McDowell NPES/Eastman Kodak Company (First published in Proceedings of TAGA Conference, 2002) - PDF/X, Characterized Printing Conditions & Color Management
David Q. McDowell NPES/Eastman Kodak Company (First published in IPA Bulletin, Nov/Dec 2003) - Process Control, Characterization Data and Color Management Profiles
David Q. McDowell NPES/Eastman Kodak Company (First published in IPA Bulletin, July/August 2004)
- Print-to-Proof Match: What's Involved?
David Q. McDowell (First published in IPA Bulletin, March/April 2005) - Quality managed proofing: The road to visual consistency
Stefan Livens and Marc Mahy Agfa Corporation
- FOGRA expert knowledge on digital print
- BVDM MediaStandard Print 2018 - Technical Guidelines for Data, Proof and Production Run Printing
- Digital Print Manufacturing
Color Management Workflows and Roles
Ann L. McCarthy Xerox - Color Imaging Workflow Primitives - short form
Ann L. McCarthy Xerox - Color Imaging Workflow Primitives - long form
Ann L. McCarthy Xerox - Guidelines for device-independent color data processing in accordance with the ICC-Standard
The European Color Initiative
- Common colour appearance
- Viewing Conditions, Colorimetric Measurements and Profile Making
David Q. McDowell (First published in IPA Bulletin, November 2004 - Color Management - What's Needed for Printing & Publishing
David Q. McDowell, Eastman Kodak Company (first published in IPA Bulletin, March/April 2000 and GATF World, July/August 2000) - ICC Achievements and Challenges
Tim Kohler - Color Management: Current Practice and The Adoption of a New Standard
Michael Has and Todd Newman
- ICC three-component color encoding registry
- Adobe RGB (1998)
- Adobe RGB (1998) specification
Adobe Systems, Inc
- Advanced colour management for digital photography
Jack Holm - Camera raw - the basics
Jack Holm - Camera raw profile example
Jack Holm, Ingeborg Tastl and Mike McGuire - Creating scene-referred images using Photoshop CS3
- Capture color analysis gamuts Paper Presentation
Jack Holm
Standards Roundup by Ann L. McCarthy, was a regular feature of the IS&T Reporter from 2014.
Standards Update by David Q. McDowell was a regular feature of the IS&T Reporter, from 2001 through 2013. A selection of those articles, relevant to color management, is available here.
- October 2013 Standards Update
- May 2008 ISO TC130 meetings in Paris
- March 2008 Joint ISO TC130 and TC42 activities
- Sep 2007 Document format standards
- May 2007 CIE and ICC update
- Sep 2006 Introduction to standards
- July 2006 ASTM standards on colour and appearance
- April 2006 ISO TC 130 and TC42 meetings in San Diego
- Feb 2006 Cooperative activities in the imaging industry
- Oct 2005 PDF/A - ISO 19005-1
- Aug 2005 Printing and publishing standards update
- June 2005 ISO TC130 meetings in London
- April 2005 Proof-to-print matching
- Dec 2004 ICC activities
- June 2003 ISO TC 130, ISO TC 42 and ICC meetings in Vancouver
- April 2003 Color science standards activities
- April 2001 ICC activities
- The Synergistic Relationship between Standards for Data Exchange, Metrology, Process Control, and Color Management
David Q. McDowell - A Standard Default Color Space for the Internet - sRGB
Michael Stokes, Matthew Anderson, Srinivasan Chandrasekar, Ricardo Motta
Case studies
- Streamlining color for Reader's Digest
Laurel Brunner - Improved Color for the World Wide Web: A Case Study in Color Management for Distributed Digital Media
Todd Newman - Color Management Workflow Analysis
Soren Winslow Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark and a member of the Ifra Color Management Working Group. The scope of this report is to document how different newspapers approach color management. Eight newspapers were chosen as examples of color management implementation: Aftonbladet (Stockholm); Associated Newspapers (London); Berlingske Tidende (Copenhagen); Børsen (Copenhagen); Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm); The New York Times (New York); Politiken (Copenhagen) and The Scotsman (Edinburgh).
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