New answers tagged color-management
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That is precisely what was used in Kodak Photo CD, moreover it is a predecessor of xvYCC_601. The problem why it was not done is because it is ONLY limited range (as Cb and Cr components are extended for extended gamut, while Y' stays the same), while full range is preferred for photo imagery; the other problem is there is no defined transfer when the Y' is ...
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I want to profile my scanner using an IT8.7/2 chart. Analyzing the ICC profile I generated it shows that the Media White Point is close to D65 illuminant (6501K). What does this mean?
It means that it has analyzed the results of your scan and has determined that the illuminant for your scanner is centered on 6501K.
Does it mean that whenever I apply this ...
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Turns out scanin ignores any profile information. Considering profiles would be missing the point for profiling.
But I just wanted a quick way to read the patch values with values similar to what I saw in Gimp or Darktable.
A solution is to bake in the profile. In my case:
tificc IMG_1956it8.tif IMG_1956it8_baked.tif
running scanin on the result gave me RGBs ...
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i tricked nikon scan into using prophoto rgb by swapping out the stored adobe rgb profile and renaming prophoto rgb as adobe rgb within nikon scan. was trying to find out how i did it 8 years ago..
having some trouble with posterizing skin tones in the poor underexposed images, but it is for archive so in the future that may become easier...
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