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PatchTool icon  PatchTool Features

Import
View and manipulate color lists
Gamut Tools
Export
Display Check
Printer and monitor proofing

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Import...

  • Files saved in industry standard CGATS and CxF (Version-1 and Version-2) color lists formats

  • From user-defined lists (plain text format) from spreadsheets or word processors

  • RGB data encoded in 8 bit, 15 bit, 16 bit, or scaled to 100%

  • Spectral data with various scales (0-1 or 0%-100%) and ranges (380-730 nm or 400-700 nm)

  • Color data saved using the Optical Society of America’s Uniform Color Scales (OSA UCS) notation

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View and manipulate color lists

  • Assign IDs and switch between the Measured, Random, and Visual layouts of ECI2002 and IT8.7/4 charts

  • Average color lists using either a weighted or un-weighted method (mix lists with or without spectral data)

  • Compare a patch in a file to a patch in any other file, and get the color difference value

  • Compare two files (with the same number of patches) in the same window

  • Obtain statistical data on the differences between two files

  • Re-order color lists according to any user-selected color space coordinate (or spectral value when available)

  • Turn and mirror patch layouts, flip rows and columns, or rename and renumber color lists

  • Set the display color profile

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Gamut Tools

  • Convert RGB or CMYK data assigned to a Source profile to a Destination profile

  • Convert RGB or CMYK data assigned to a profile to the Profile Connection Space (i.e. L*a*b*/XYZ)

  • Convert L*a*b* or XYZ file data to RGB or CMYK through a profile

  • Check if RGB or CMYK data assigned to a Source profile is clipped by a Destination profile

  • Check if L*a*b* or XYZ file data is clipped by a Destination profile

  • Generate device dependent RGB or CMYK color lists

  • Generate device independent color lists (L*a*b*/L*C*h*/XYZ) with a gamut limited by a profile

  • Determine the gamut volume of a profile

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Export...

  • To many standard color spaces (xyY, XYZ, L*a*b*, L*C*h*, RGB, CMYK)

  • To Munsell HVC notation using many conversion options, and select amongst various output formats

  • To OSA UCS Ljg notation and generate color lists for any of the nine standard UCS data planes

  • As text files conforming to the CGATS standard format

  • In a simplified Tab-delimited format for text reports and spreadsheets

  • In many IMAGE formats (including TIFF-L*a*b* and TIFF-CMYK, 8 and 16 bit)

  • Spectral data scaled between 0-1 or 0%-100% and in a range of either 380 to 730 nm or 400 to 700 nm

  • RGB data in 8 bit, 15 bit+ (i.e. Photoshop “16 bit”), “true” 16 bit, or scaled to 100%

  • Color lists to be used as "Color Decks” in the BabelColor Color Translator and Analyzer (CT&A) program (BabelColor CT&A is not included)

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Display Check

(From the top-left, clockwise: DTP94, Eye-One Display2, Eye-One Pro, Spyder2, Spyder3)

  • Check the display calibration (monitor calibration plus display profile)

  • Check the monitor calibration only (LUT, White Point, grey ramp, primaries)

  • Check a display profile against itself

  • Measure your own color list

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Printer and monitor proofing

  • Certify a proofing printer according to IDEAlliance requirements (for SWOP and GRACoL approved papers)

  • Certify a monitor according to IDEAlliance requirements

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