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General features

  • (New in version 4.0) Toolbar window: BabelColor CT&A's top window contains a toolbar with icons that open each set of tools in separate windows. The icons are separated in three groups. The first group, with three icons, is associated to the RGB vs RGB tool, a tool which accepts tristimulus type color space inputs such as L*a*b* and RGB. The second group, with seven icons, is associated to tools which require spectral data in order to provide a measurement. The last group has one icon, which opens the Help documentation. Opening and closing windows can be done with the toolbar icons or with the "Tools" menu, which contains additional window management functions.

  • Designed for Windows and Mac: Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8, 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.

  • Help manual: The program comes with a complete help manual which covers the operation and background information relative to each tool. The manual also includes many chapters devoted to basic color theory, including detailed equations. The manual is available in PDF format (400+ pages) and as a stand-alone HTML Help Windows application. Both formats contain thousands of hyperlinks, for easy navigation, and a thorough index. You can use and keep these manuals even if you do not buy the program!

  • Tutorials: The help manual includes many tutorials to learn how to use the program features.

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RGB vs RGB tool (screenshots)

No instrument is required to use the RGB vs RGB tool. However, this tool will accept an input from many colorimeters and spectrophotometers manufactured by X-Rite. Click here for more information on the supported instruments.

  • Compare or convert colors from two RGB spaces, two catalogues of color chips (herein called Color Decks), or a RGB space and a Color Deck. The two colors can be compared on various backgrounds (white, gray, black), against each other, or superimposed on one another. You can see how text of the two selected colors will look on white or black, or on a background of the other color.

  • Select amongst twenty (20) predefined RGB spaces plus one custom space. (detailed specifications - RGB spaces)

  • Define a 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. (detailed specifications - custom RGB spaces)

  • For RGB spaces, input data in RGB, L*a*b*, L*u*v*, pick a color in the "xy" chromaticity diagram, or measure it using one of the supported instruments. Measuring modes: reflectance, emission, ambient, flash (when available for a given instrument).

  • Navigate through, and convert from/to, thousands of color chips from four well known color catalogues (Color Decks): British Standard 5252F, Munsell, FED-STD-595, and RAL CLASSIC. Add your own color list as a Color Deck. (detailed specifications - Color Decks)

  • Get color coordinates in eleven different representations and variants (HSB, Hex #, L*a*b*, L*C*h*, Munsell HVC, etc.). (detailed specifications - color difference)

  • Get color difference values in seven industry standard formulas and variants. Get a color difference in D50 when the two compared colors are characterized with different illuminants. See the individual numerical contributions of DeltaL*, DeltaC*, and DeltaH* to the total DeltaE difference, as well as Delta h*. (detailed specifications - color difference)

  • Identify clipped coordinates (out of gamut) when converting colors to a RGB space.

  • When using a colorimeter/spectrophotometer 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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Spectral tools (screenshots)

Except for the FluoCheck tools, all spectral tools accept inputs from an i1Pro or i1Pro 2 spectrophotometer, manufactured by X-Rite; the FluoCheck tools requires an i1Pro 2. Please note that the Eye-One Display and i1Display Pro are colorimeters which measure only tristimulus data and cannot be used with any of the spectral tools. Click here for more information on the supported instruments.

These tools are grouped in separate windows:

  • Density: A full featured densitometer which comprises a basic Reflection Density tool and more advanced Dot Area, Apparent Trap, Print Contrast, Hue Error, Grayness, and Saturation measurement tools. The ideal tool to measure your prints Dmax! (Density detailed specifications)
     
  • (New in version 4.0) FluoCheck: The FluoCheck tools provide numerical data on the color stability of one or two samples under the M0, M1, and M2 Measurement Conditions as defined in ISO 13655. A Fluorescence Index (FI) is obtained by measuring a sample using either M0 (i.e. Ill-A) or M1 (i.e. D50), and M2 (i.e. UV-cut), and computing the color difference between the two measurements. When two samples are compared, a Fluorescence Metamerism Index (FMI) is obtained by using the M2 measurements of the two samples, and either the M0 or M1 measurements (a different FMI is computed relative to M0 and M1). (FluoCheck detailed specifications)
     
  • Graph: The Graph tools enable you to compare two spectrums and perform simple spectral math operations between them (Add, Subtract, Average, Multiply). Measurements can be taken in reflectance, emission, ambient and flash modes. Compare an ambient or flash spectrum to the spectrum of an ideal blackbody or D-series illuminant of the same illuminance. (Graph detailed specifications)
     
  • ISO 3664+: The ISO 3664+ tools can be used to evaluate the viewing conditions for Prints, Transparencies, and Color monitors, as per ISO 3664, with additional flexibility in setting the individual goals. 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). (ISO 3664+ detailed specifications)
     
  • Metamerism Index (MI): The Metamerism Index (MI) tools provide numerical data on the stability of a sample under various illuminants using the Color Inconstancy Index (CII, CIECAT02). When two samples are compared, a MI index is automatically computed. In addition to many standard Illuminants, you can measure or upload the spectrums of up to two ambient illuminants for visualization and computation. (MI detailed specifications)
     
  • RAL Design: The RAL Design tool is used to directly obtain the color of a measured sample in RAL DESIGN notation. (RAL Design detailed specifications)
     
  • Whiteness: The Whiteness tools are designed to measure the whiteness, brightness, fluorescence, and opacity of printing papers. Please note that fluorescence measurements require either an i1Pro 2 which supports the M0 and M2 Measurement Conditions, or an i1Pro which is NOT UV-cut plus a thin transparent UV filter (not provided). The other measurements require compliant white or black backings, which are also not provided; however, you can easily check a backing compliance with the Whiteness tools. (Whiteness detailed specifications)

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