Software For Input and Output Profiling
Three most popular Linux tools for device profiling are:
- Argyll Color Management System (Argyll CMS) is a command line only collection of tools. Argyll CMS covers a wide range of needs from source or output characterization to monitor LUT loading and more. Argyll CMS is available as a package in Ubuntu, Debian testing, openSUSE (Build Service) and Fedora and as a generic x86 Linux binary installation from the web site, along with source code under the GPL. There is also one GUI which eases the calibration of LCD and CRT monitors with Argyll, called dispcalGUI.
- LPROF (or LCMS Profiler) is a GUI tool that is able to produce profiles for cameras, scanners and monitors. LPROF was originally designed simply to demonstrate LittleCMS (LCMS) capabilities, but in 2005, LPROF development has been resumed by a new team. It is the only full GUI-based profiling tool for Linux, and it is available as a package from several Linux distributions.
- dispcalGUI is a GUI for the display calibration and profiling tools of Argyll CMS.
As with any other OS platform, calibration and profiling requires:
- to acquire through a source device (scanner, camera…) a color patch target that the profiling software will compare to the manufacturer-provided color values of the target.
- or for output (monitor, printer), reading with a specific device (spectrophotometer, colorimeter or spectrocolorimeter) the value of color patches and comparing the measured color values against the values originally sent for output.
To produce a profile for a source device is usually simple with Argyll CMS or LPROF, provided the device is supported under Linux. Producing a profile for an output device can be more involved as not many spectrophotometers or colorimeters are currently supported under Linux.
Read more about this topic: Linux Color Management
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