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(Formally GretagMacbeth)

 

Color Management Tools

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X-Rite ProfileMaker 5 Pro

Everything you need for creating accurate, reliable ICC-profiles: With a highly intuitive graphic interface and the many advanced features, you can quickly and easily build accurate ICC profiles for all types of devices – including scanners, digital cameras, CRT and flat panel displays, printers and presses. ProfileMaker is a modular software system that works on both Mac (including OS Classic and OS X) and Windows platforms right out of the box. You can start with only the functionality you need now, and upgrade later to a version with more functionality through a license code.

 

Download ProfileMaker 5 brochure.

 

X-Rite/Gretag ProfileMaker 5 Pro includes:
 

ColorPicker uses ICC profiles to ensure the best possible match for PANTONE® and individual special colors for the desired output device.

ColorPicker permits you to define your own color palettes that can be used in popular design applications and saved as named color profiles. Based on a selected profile, ColorPicker provides an accurate display of measured and composed colors, showing you how well colors can be reproduced by the output device. Best absolute color match can be automatically found with “minimize” function. An enhanced “out of gamut” warning reduces margin of error, and a display of color distances ensures accurate color selection.

You can fine-tune colors in the source color space (Gray, RGB, CMYK and multi-color) or device independent LCH space, as well as compare color variations using delta E, delta E94 and delta E CMC calculations.

ColorPicker palettes are exportable to Adobe InDesign®, Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe PageMaker®, Macromedia® FreeHand®. Take advantage of updated coated, uncoated and matte digital PANTONE® libraries.

 

ProfileEditor helps guide you through the process of editing all types of profiles, including multi-color profiles. You can define profiling workflow with up to 3 profiles – input, output and simulation, and can edit lightness, contrast, saturation, white point, and any point on the gradation curve. Direct editing of gray balance allows you to quickly and easily fine-tune your profile.

To achieve the most accurate proofing simulation, edit white point values using familiar CMYK or RGB values with the Workflow White Point editing feature. Selective color correction allows you to precisely define and edit a specific color or range of colors. Simply define the center point and then individually select upper and lower limits for L, C and h. With our intelligent toolbar, you can switch on and off the edits you would like to see in all possible combinations. To see the effects of the edits you have made, open any image and apply the edited profile – all from within the ProfileEditor application.

You can easily update profiles by measuring of a limited number of patches. This saves time versus remeasuring the entire test chart and making a new profile. You can view and compare the gamut of different profiles in 2 or 3 dimensions – giving you a better sense of the colors each device is capable of imaging.

 

MeasureTool works with popular measurement devices, including Spectrolino and SpectroScan, Eye-One and iCColor, handling all of the data collection and calculation required for accurate profile computation. By comparing measurement data from different test charts, MeasureTool checks device stability and helps you determine if data averaging is required. Averaging is especially useful when profiling large format devices that typically have large dot sizes. Special test charts for press applications help maximize profile accuracy by compensating for density variations inherent in the press.

MeasureTool Features

 

• Save, average and compare spectral measurement data.

• Spectral measuring and displaying of the spectral curve of each patch.

• Calibrate more than one monitor on your computer.

• Calibrate CRT and LCD monitors to ensure best on-screen color rendition.

• Adapt a network of monitors to a reference monitor.

• Calibrate monitor white point to match the whiteness of the printed output.

• Generate statistical analysis of the measurement data.

• Average measurements to compensate for variation as well as large dot size common to many large format printers.

• Correct measurements automatically to compensate for press density variations prior to computing the profile.