What is Color Management and are there ICC profiles for Nikon scanners?
The concept of color management is to implement a method of working that attempts to standardize the representation of digital images. The aim is to ensure that the appearance of any image (color, brightness, etc) remain consistent as it is moved, viewed and printed on any computer. The ICC (International Color Consortium, http://www.color.org ) has established a standard for the definition of a color management system for image processing and reproduction. In order to achieve a color managed system the following basic components are required: 1. A definition of red, green and blue. (Chromaticity) This relates the digital values of pure red (r=255, g = 0 and b=0), pure green (r=0, g = 255 and b=0), and pure blue (r=0, g = 0 and b=255) to a set of primary colors taken from the natural range of color that the human visual system can perceive. For example, two film scanners may scan the same image and produce different results. This is because the color filters that are used to analyze th
