re: Hexachrome Profiling
re: Hexachrome Profiling
- Subject: re: Hexachrome Profiling
- From: Dan Reid <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 11:58:31 -0700
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 12:26:12 -0500, Dan Goodenow <email@hidden>
wrote:
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I know that there are a couple of different packages that will allow the
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creation of HexaChrome profiles. Does anyone know of a piece of software
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that would allow one to enter Lab values and process them through a
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Hexachrome profile, with the output being HexaChrome process values (i.e.
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74%C, 45%M, 30%Y, 15%K, 12%O, 10%G)? The application in mind is reading in
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paint swatches with a spectro and trying to determine the closest HexaChrome
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values. Ideally, the software would also give some type of objective data
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concerning whether the color was inside the HexaChrome gamut of the profiled
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device, and if not tell how far outside of gamut it fell. Currently this can
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be done with Color Shop (perhaps others as well) from X-Rite for straight
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4/c process, but to my knowledge there is no way to do this with HexaChrome.
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Thanks in advance-
Though I haven't tried you could take the reading in Colorshop and find out
its L*a*b* values at 2 observer D50. Enter L*a*b* values in PS and use
Pantone's Hex filters to convert to Hexachrome. Pantone also makes filters
for Illustrator too.
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Dan B. Reid
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