PatchTool OPENED FILE WINDOW
patch view
Color Measurement
and Analysis
When you open a file which contains a list of color data, this list is represented by patches of the corresponding color in the "Patch view" tab.
The patches are presented starting from the top-left and listed first from the top-down and then from left to right. The file data as well as
derived data is presented in the "Tabular data" tab. 2D and 3D views of the data and profiles are available in the “3D graph” tab. Each file has
its own window that can be set independently of the others.
The supported Illuminants and Observers are shown in the PatchTool Specifications page.
The screenshot above shows the "Re-map" menu which appears when you click on the black triangle; it contains commands which
predominantly affect the patch layout. There are three menu items dedicated to target scramble and analysis, which can be used to optimize a
target layout so that it can be easily measured when printed by scanning one row at a time, with an 1Pro ruler for example. You will find more
information on target scrambling on the Target Scramble/Analysis page.
Do a right-click on any patch to access a menu to copy the patch data into the clipboard, as shown below; the Tab-delimited data can be
pasted in separate spreadsheet columns or in a text document. The "Go into patch edition mode" menu item gets you into a mode where
the patches can be moved, copied, extracted, deleted, and flipped. You can also assign preset colors to selected patches or swap two patches.
The patch edition mode can also be accessed by selecting the "Edit patches" checkbox. You will find more info on the Patch Edition mode
page.
Press shift + right-click on a color patch to get an alternate contextual used to rename a patch or assign preset colors to this patch, i.e
REPLACE the patch color; this is shown below on the other screenshot.
Selecting the "Rename the patch..." menu item shown in the screenshot above launches the dialog shown below. To edit a patch name, you
can also click in any cell of the “Tabular data” “Name” column.