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Detailed specs / System requirements
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Compare, convert, and analyze colors from any RGB space
and color catalogues, two colors at a time.
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Measure colors using the Eye-One line of colorimeters and
spectrometers. Transform your spectrometer into a full-featured
densitometer, a powerful color-stability analyzer (virtual light booth,
color inconstancy, metamerism), a multi-purpose spectrum viewer, a
unique instrument dedicated to the analysis of monitors, light booths,
transparencies illuminators, and ambient light as per ISO 3664, and into a
specialized paper whiteness analyser.
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Designed for Windows and Mac. Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows
7,
Mac OS X (PowerPC and Mac Intel).
Although the interface is very similar on all platforms, the menus are laid
out and labeled according to the user-guidelines for each platform.
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Includes many tutorials to learn how
to use the program features and, at the same time, better understand color
technology.
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Includes a
complete help manual (350+ pages
PDF) with basic color theory and detailed equations.
In Windows, stand-alone "HTML
Help" is also available. All help documents contain thousands of hyperlinks,
for easy navigation, and a complete index. You can use and keep these
manuals
even if you do not buy the program!
See the
system requirements
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For RGB spaces, input data in RGB, L*a*b*, L*u*v*, or pick a color in
the "xy" chromaticity diagram.
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Input data using a connected
colorimeter/spectrometer. Supported instruments: GretagMacbeth Eye-One
Display, Display 2, and Eye-One Pro models. Supported instruments
measuring modes: reflectance, emission, ambient illumination (when available
for a given model).
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Select amongst twenty RGB spaces and
one custom space.
Pre-defined spaces include Adobe (1998), Apple RGB, CIE
RGB, ColorMatch, eciRGB_v2, ProPhoto, and sRGB.
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Navigate through, and convert
from/to, thousands of color chips from
four well known color catalogues (also called Color Decks): British Standard 5252F,
Munsell,
FED-STD-595, and RAL CLASSIC.
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Add your own color list as a Color
Deck using the "BabelColor
CT&A Export" dialog of the
PatchTool program, which converts color lists saved in CGATS, CXF or
plain text format to the Color Decks database format.
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Compare and
convert
coordinates between two RGB spaces, two color decks, or a RGB space and a
deck.
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Get color coordinates in eleven different representations and
variants (HSB, Hex #, L*a*b*, L*C*h*, Munsell HVC, etc.).
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When using a colorimeter/spectrometer in emission or
ambient measurement mode, obtain the Luminance (cd/m2)
or Illuminance (lux), as well as the Correlated Color Temperature (CCT,
in kelvin).
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Get color difference values in seven industry standard formulas and
variants (DeltaE*ab, DeltaE*uv, CIE94, CIE94-textile, CMC(1:1), CMC(2:1),
and CIEDE2000).
You even get a color difference when the two compared colors are
characterized with different illuminants.
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See the individual numerical contributions of
DeltaL*, DeltaC*,
and DeltaH* to the total DeltaE difference, as well as Delta h*.
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Identify clipped coordinates
(out of gamut) when converting colors to a RGB space.
See the detailed specs
(Color translation).
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Define an RGB space with custom primaries, a
custom illuminant, and a custom gamma (including the L*,
i.e. L-star Tone Response Curve used in eciRGB_v2). Export your custom RGB
space as an ICC profile.
See the detailed specs
(Custom RGB space).
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Supported instruments:
GretagMacbeth Eye-One Pro spectrometer (all versions).
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Supported instruments measuring modes:
reflectance, emission, and ambient and flash illumination (when
available for a given model).
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Density tools:
Reflection Density, Dot Area, Print Contrast, Apparent Trap, Hue error,
Grayness, Saturation. The ideal tool to measure your prints Dmax!
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Metamerism tools:
Hunter Metamerism Index (MI), Special Metamerism Index (SMI), CIECAT02 Color
Inconstancy Index (CII), and a virtual light booth; two ambient spectrums,
either measured or loaded from a file can be assigned as lluminants.
Measured ambient spectrums can also be exported as CGATS compliant files.
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RAL tool: get the
RAL DESIGN coordinates of a color patch.
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Graph tools: acquire
two spectrums and perform basic spectral math operations (Add,
Subtract, Average, Multiply); compare your ambient illumination or flash spectrums
to the spectrum of an ideal blackbody or D-series illuminant;
user-selected colorimetric data can be displayed for both Observers (2 and
10 degree) and many illuminants; get the illuminance (lux or lux-sec), the
Correlated Color Temperature (CCT, in kelvin), and the Color Rendering Index
(CRI) of ambient and flash sources; get the luminance (cd/m2)
for emission sources.
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ISO 3664+ tools:
evaluate the viewing conditions for Prints, Transparencies, and Color
monitors, as per ISO 3664. The measurements include: Color Rendering Index (CRI;
CIE Publication 13); ambient illuminance (lux); monitor luminance (cd/m2);
monitor and ambient color temperatures, chromaticity, and illumination
uniformity; light-booth and daylight simulators evaluation (MI and Quality
Grade based on ISO 23603 / CIE S 012). Print a well-formatted one-page
report which contains information dedicated to compliance reports. You can
also load an ambient spectrum from a file instead of measuring it with an
Eye-One.
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Whiteness tools:
Measure the whiteness, the brightness, the fluorescence, and the opacity of
white papers. Check the compliance of white and black backings.
Important: Fluorescence measurements require a thin, transparent, UV
filter, which is not provided, and an Eye-One which is NOT UV-Cut. The other
measurements require compliant white or black backings, which are also not
provided. You can use the default UV filter spectrum, load a filter spectrum
from a file, or measure your own filter and assigned it as the program
default.
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Export a spreadsheet savvy
text report for the Density, MI, Graph, ISO 3664+, and Whiteness tools. The
Graph and Whiteness files are also CGATS compliant and can be opened by many
color-management software, including BabelColor's PatchTool.
See the detailed specs
(Spectral tools).
See screenshots
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