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ICC Profile Part 2

After reading up on the ICC profile specification, it seems that there are many ways to define the color mapping, so I think it would be better to start off from reading a color profile. Thankfully drycreekphoto has the color profile for my local printer, which was just updated in August. If I need to look up any color transforms from one color space to another, there is this handy site by Bruce Lindbloom.

Here’s the comparison between the supposed values and the uncalibrated scanned image.

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ICC Profile Creation Tool

Time to outline the requirements of my ICC Profile Creation Tool.

I’m most likely going to write this in Java for portability. It doesn’t have to be fast.

Milestones and Tasks

  • Read ICC Profile for Costco printer
  • Write back ICC Profile for Costco printer
  • Find ICC Profile for scanner
  • Calculate ICC Profile for scanner from calibrated values and scanned values
  • Write ICC Profile for scanner
  • Test ICC Profile

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ICC Profile

I’m too cheap to pay lots of money for color management solutions from X-rite. I already have a gretag-macbeth colorchecker chart, so that’s a sunk cost. I originally planned to use it to calibrate my scanner and camera. I wrote some MATLAB code to analyze the scanned image and did some tweaking on the settings to improve the color, but it was time consuming, because I had to do it iteratively. I looked at the documentation for the ICC profile and I think I can write some MATLAB code to adjust the colors. I think this project usurps the astrolabe, because I haven’t bought the astrolabe book required to design an astrolabe. I also want to scan some old pictures during the christmas break. I’ll put up the MATLAB code for it and try to make some money by putting an affiliate link to amazon for the color checker target.

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