Color Management Understanding and Using ICC Profiles

This book brings together abridged ICC (International Color Consortium) white papers and previously unpublished material providing comprehensive guidelines to implementing effective colour management using the ICC profile format. The book is split into four parts, starting with an introductory section whereby an overview of colour management in applications and the role of ICC profiles in a colour reproduction system is given. The next section is on measurement and characterization, presenting user guidelines on inter-instrument agreement in colour measurement, device characterization methods and measurement issues for inkjet printing. The remaining two parts focus on the ICC profile, firstly examining the construction and benefits of different types of profile, and setting out compliance test considerations, implementation notes and how to evaluate profile quality. The book concludes with a look at issues in applying ICC profiles such as rendering intent, gamut mapping, and viewing conditions, then using ICC profiles to provide a colour reproduction system, process control and profile identification and output condition metadata. A glossary of terms is included as a useful reference.

Phil Green is currently Course Director of the MSc in Digital Colour Imaging and a member of the Colour Imaging Group at the London College of Communication, UK. He is also Technical Secretary of the International Color Consortium (ICC) and is active in the CIE (International Commission on Illumination) TC8-03 report detailing guidelines for the evaluation of colour reproduction. He is an experienced author/editor, having written the books Colour Engineering: Achieving Device Independent Colour (Wiley, 2002), Digital Photography (Pira International, 1999), and Understanding Digital Colour, 2nd Edition? (GATF, 1999). His research interests include gamut mapping, colour appearance and colour difference in graphic arts media.