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 PictoColor®
inCamera™
Fast and Easy ICC Profile Software for
Digital Cameras and Scanners
Accurate Color Capture. Quickly and Easily
inCamera
is the fastest, easiest, and most accurate way to create custom ICC profiles
for digital cameras and scanners.
Utilizing industry standard charts, inCamera
creates a custom ICC digital camera or scanner profile by
evaluating the color data captured by the camera or scanner and
comparing the data to the known color values of the charts. This
profile integrates seamlessly into any ICC color managed
workflow. For a table that summarizes the various recommended
uses of the different chart types
Click Here.
Supported Charts (not included)
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GretagMacbeth
ColorChecker® |
GretagMacbeth
Digital
ColorChecker SG |
GretagMacbeth
ColorChecker® DC |
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HutchColor HCT
Precision Scanner
Target
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Industry Standard IT8 |
inCamera
is designed to help the photographer achieve consistent,
predictable color with any digital camera or scanner. Features an online
User Guide
that serves as a helpful tutorial for creating and properly integrating ICC
profiles into a color managed Photoshop workflow.
The Profiling Process
1. Simply open an image with one of the supported charts in the scene.
2. Select inCamera plug-in from Photoshop's Filters menu.
3. Position the appropriate flexible facsimile grid over the chart in the
image
4. Save the ICC profile.
5. Assign the profile to each image taken under similar lighting conditions.
The
mechanics
of creating a digital camera profile are quite simple. All you do is take a
picture any of the supported charts under the specific lighting conditions of
your photo shoot, open the image within Photoshop, launch inCamera from the
Filters menu, align the flexible
template over the chart in the image, and click Ok.
inCamera automatically creates a custom ICC profile by
comparing the colors captured by the camera to the known color values of the
chart. Then,
you simply assign the profile within Photoshop to all images shot under the
same conditions. As you can see, the profile not only dramatically improves
the shot visually, but transforms the each of colors of the ColorChecker
Chart squares with dead-on accuracy relative to the known Lab values.
Compare the
measurements of the second gray square from the right.
Image before assigning profile |
Image after assigning profile |
Digital file of ColorChecker Chart |
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Compare the
measurements of the yellow square in the upper left-hand corner.
Image before assigning profile |
Image after assigning profile |
Digital file of ColorChecker Chart |
Compare the
measurements of the light blue square in the upper right-hand corner.
Image before assigning profile |
Image after assigning profile |
Digital file of ColorChecker Chart |
Profile Editing
Even
though we have made the color right relative to the known
reference standard, we all know that color reproduction is every
bit an art as much as it is a science. There may be times when
you wish to intervene in the process, providing guidance as to
how colors should be handled. There are countless imaging
applications that offer standard color correction tools. An
alternative method of adjusting color is to modify the behavior
of a device profile instead. This is what profile editing is all
about.
ICC profiles created
with inCamera may be edited to suit your preferences with our companion
plug-in, iCorrect EditLab. See the
Using
the Edit section of the iCorrect EditLab
User Guide
for details.
Tutorial:
Edit Digital Camera Profiles for Stunning, Color Accurate
Portraits
Note on scanning color negative film:
Since IT8 targets are
not available for color negative films, scanner profiles cannot generally be
made for such media. However, the clever photographer can circumvent this
limitation in certain situations by using inCamera in a special way.
There are certain situations (for example, school portrait photography)
where profiling can be brought to bear on an "untouchable" area of color
management: color negative film. If you shoot a frame containing either of
the ColorChecker charts, followed by your "normal" images, the processed
film can be scanned by a color negative film scanner, producing positive RGB
digital images. You may then build a "digital camera" profile from the image
of the ColorChecker, and apply this profile to all other images shot at that
same time.
System Requirements
Windows:
Windows XP, Vista,
Pentium, 512 MB RAM
Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3,
Macintosh:
Mac OS X, v 10.2.8 - 10.4.8,
PowerPC, Mac Intel, 512 MB RAM
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (9.0.2), CS3
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Calibration Charts are
required to make ICC profiles. Charts supported (not included):
-Digital Camera Profiling: GretagMacbeth ColorChecker, Digital ColorChecker SG,
ColorChecker DC
-Scanner Profiling: IT8.7/1
or IT8.7/2, or GretagMacbeth ColorChecker, ColorChecker DC, or HutchColor HCT
target
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