Im not a colour expert. What parameters should I use to code my images?
Use the CIE D65 white point (6504 K) if you can. Use the Rec. 709 primary chromaticities. Your monitor is probably already quite close to this. Rec. 709 has international agreement, offers excellent performance, and is the basis for HDTV development so it’s future-proof. If you need to operate in linear light, so be it. Otherwise, for best perceptual performance and maximum ease of interchange with digital video, use the Rec. 709 transfer function, with its 0.45-power law. If you need Mac compatibility you will have to suffer a penalty in perceptual performance. Raise tristimulus values to the 1/1.8-power before presenting them to QuickDraw. To code luma, use the Rec. 601 luma coefficients 0.299, 0.587 and 0.114. Use Rec. 601 digital video coding with black at 16 and white at 235. Use prime symbols ( ‘ ) to denote all of your nonlinear components! PhotoCD uses all of the preceding measures. PhotoCD codes colour differences asymmetrically, according to film gamut. Unless you have a requ
