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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, and into a
unique instrument dedicated to the analysis of monitors, light booths,
transparencies illuminators, and ambient light as per ISO 3664.
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Designed for Windows and Mac. Compatible with Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista,
Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel), and Mac OS 8-9 (V-2.1 only).
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 with basic color theory and detailed equations. "HTML
Help" is used in Windows while a
PDF file (250+ pages) is
provided for the Mac. All help documents contain thousands of hyperlinks,
for easy navigation, and a complete index. You can keep and use the Help
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, Bruce RGB, CIE
RGB, ColorMatch, Generic RGB, 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-595B, 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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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, ambient 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; ambient illumination can
be measured and assigned as an illuminant.
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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 spectrum
to the spectrums of ideal blackbodies or D-series illuminants;
user-selected colorimetric data can be displayed for both Observers (2 and
10 degree) and many illuminants; get the illuminance (lux) and the color
temperature (kelvin) for ambient 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 CIE Standard 12, an updated version of CIE Publication 51).
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Export a spreadsheet savvy
text report for the Density, MI, Graph, and ISO 3664+ tools.
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Export an image of the Graph
spectrums.
See the detailed specs
(Spectral tools).
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