Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Fig. 8-11
ColorThink's Profile Inspector shows a list view of all profiles on a user's machine and a detail view of profiles including
information such as curves and errors. Seen here is a private tag in an Epson profile. Buttons in the upper right will open new tools like
the 2D or 3D gamut mapping capabilities for the currently selected profile.
The 3D gamut mapping in ColorThink is second to none. As seen in Fig.
8-12, you can load multiple ICC profiles to map over each other, change
the appearance of the 3D plot of each profile, the background color, the
size and view, and even spin the gamut in an animation loop. One
insanely great feature is the ability to load an actual image and show its
gamut (see Fig. 8-12). The colored dots represent the gamut of the Printer
Test File seen on top of the Gamut of the U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
profile.
ColorThink provides a very useful technique for showing the accu-
racy of profiles using the 3D gamut map when the user creates two color
lists from measured and reference data. Open the reference data file in
ColorThink and it will create a color list of the expected LAB values. Then
drag and drop or open the profile that was generated using this reference
