Hello, Sorry if this is not the right way to communicate, I was looking for a forum but didn't find one right away. Anyway, here is what I am wondering about. Why can't I do this:
1.) I start with a software-generated color target, defined in sRGB space. It could be a standardized TIFF file that displays several color patches, corresponding to a few select (RGB) values (0,0,50), (0,50,0) (0,50,50) etc. This file is then a.) displayed on my LCD monitor and b.) printed on my dye-sub printer. 2.) I now go and find a good flatbed scanner that has a reliable ICC profile from the vendor, meaning that a scanned color target - assumed to be true - will have the correct (RGB) values after scanning. 3.) I place my LCD monitor face down onto the scanner, and if necessary disable the scanner's illumination source. I then scan the monitor and use lcms to generate a ICC profile for my monitor, using the scanner (with its ICC profile) as my calibrated hardware measurement tool. 4.) I now place my dye-sub printout onto the same scanner and generate an ICC profile for my dye-sub printer. The whole idea is that a flatbed scanner is easy to find, cheap to buy, and often comes with decent ICC profiles - a scanner should be a good substitute for a colorimeter on a monitor. I wish there was some easy-to-use software that walks me through just this process, and all I'd ever have to manually select from a pre-defined list was the flatbed scanner that I am using. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
