
Argyll Color Management System
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Last updated 2020/11/26

Introducing the ArgyllPRO ColorMeter
V1.5.4
V1.5.4 is compatible with
Android 11.
ArgyllPRO ColorMeter is an Android application for Tablets and
Phones, that lets you use all your USB connected color
measurement instruments on the go. If you need to measure light
or color in Printing, Photography, Lighting, Graphic Design, TV,
Film or Video, then you will want to check it out in the
2 Minute Overview + Guided
Tour Video.
For complete details, please see the
ArgyllPRO
website.
ArgyllCMS
Current Version 2.1.2 (14th January 2020)
ArgyllCMS is an ICC compatible color management system,
available as Open Source. It supports accurate ICC profile
creation for scanners, cameras and film recorders, and calibration
and profiling of displays and RGB & CMYK printers. Device Link
can be created with a wide variety of advanced options, including
specialized Video calibration standards and 3dLuts. Spectral
sample data is supported, allowing a selection of illuminants
observer types, and paper fluorescent whitener additive
compensation. Profiles can also incorporate source specific gamut
mappings for perceptual and saturation intents. Gamut mapping and
profile linking uses the CIECAM02 appearance model, a unique gamut
mapping algorithm, and a wide selection of rendering intents. It
also includes code for the fastest portable 8 bit raster color
conversion engine available anywhere, as well as support for fast,
fully accurate 16 bit conversion. Device color gamuts can also be
viewed and compared with a modern Web browser using X3DOM .
Comprehensive documentation is provided for each major tool, and a
general guide to using the tools for typical color management
tasks is also available. A mailing list provides support for more
advanced usage.
Argyll is a collection of source code that compiles into a set of
command line tools, licensed under an AGLP license.
Argyll also includes a general purpose ICC V2 profile format
access library, icclib, and a general purpose CGATS file format
I/O library.
Also hosted here, is DPS a "Demo Print System". This is an inkjet
printer driver framework, currently aimed at driving the Epson
R1800 printer. This is under development, and not yet complete.
Your continued support is
important.
Unfortunately programmers and color experts can't live on
encouragement and complements alone - they have bills to pay,
equipment to keep up to date, instruments to buy, and other
financial obligations such as maintaining a roof over their heads
and keeping the lights on, just like normal people. Currently it is
only your support that will allow me to continue working on
ArgyllCMS, rather than having to do something else. So if you find
ArgyllCMS valuable, and would like to continue to have technical
support, bug-fixes, updates and drivers for new instruments, and
support for new technologies, or you appreciate having serious color
management available on platforms other than MSWin and OS X, then
it's a really good idea to provide some support via a donation that
reflects the value it has to you.
If you are a casual or hobby user, then something like $5 - $100 may
be appropriate, depending on how deep your pockets are.
If you are using ArgyllCMS in your business, an annual donation, of
(say) 5-20% of the cost of the commercial software you have not had
to pay for, would make a great deal of difference in ensuring that
it continues to be available.
If you are distributing ArgyllCMS as part of some other free
package, then please make your users aware of the need to support
the software that you and they depend upon.
If you are distributing ArgyllCMS as part of some other package that
you are make money out of (e.g., a commercial Linux distribution
where ArgyllCMS is providing a feature that allows Linux to be on
par with other operating systems with regard to Color Management),
then it would help tremendously if you treated it like other key
software you depend on, and make an allowance to contribute a
portion of a full time developers salary every year.
No contribution is too small - it all adds up.
If there is an insufficient level of ongoing support, then there is
still a very real possibility that you will return here in 6-12
months time, and find ArgyllCMS has gone.
NOTE that if you don't wish to be publicly
acknowledged, please say so in the Paypal message attached to the
payment.
Thanks to everyone who has made the effort to
provide financial support, as well as the encouraging messages - you
are making a difference in keeping ArgyllCMS available:
Alan Goldhammer, David Attwood, Paul Stein, Пивоваров Андрей, Mind
On Photography, Greg Feeler, Joseph Ridgway, Flakey, Timothy Hope,
Eugen Latmann, Nguyễn Minh Sơn, Rafal Fitt, Kurt Weidner, Guelette
yves, Alexander Becker, Damiano Croci, Andre Kaltenbacher, Dariusz
Chalanicz, Bruce Jaffe, Patrick Woods, Hans Thogersen, Wayne
Sanderson, Ron Wood, Pascal de Bruijn, Paul Greenfield, Thomas
Couch, Jarkko Lavinen, Patrick O'Gorman, Christophe Callais, George
Daswani, Reg Francklyn, Thomas Gravdahl, Georg Mahnke, Beth
Robinson, Reynald Aguinaldo, Nivien Saleh, Denise Enrique, Robert
Solomon, Fotis Zagoras, Juan García, Gregory Peterson, Kevin
Chester, Clark Jacobsohn, Steven Kucharzyk, Panini-Pro SW, Heinrich
Holtgreve, Donald C. Lawson III, Damjan Petrena,
Jacob Medinilla, Tomas l Martin Ore, Peter Fronteddu, Rachita
Traian, Michael J Morongell, Scott Surbrook, John Holstborg,
Prepress By Sloane, Jiabei Zhu, Udo Bachmann, Yury Lagoviyer,
Richard Neil, Juho Kerola, Webster Dove, Mete Balci, 王 柄鈞, Teunis
Polak, Normand Fortier, Robert Wignell, Greg Sullivan, Zhen Ren,
Graham Byrnes, Mauri Eronen, Anna Cosseddu, Thomas Scholzen,
Andreas Holzner, Patrick Lehmann, Wallace
Murdoch Jr, Jens Emmerich, Roger Kerr, Vallo Kallaste, Eduardo
Kropnick, Aaron Spesard, Ádám Csintalan, Olivier Maas, Peter
Dumbell, Kyle Hawkes
Special thanks to the following people who have
made significant or regular contributions:
Lateral Imaging, Bergquist Johan, Fabio Giraldi, Harald
Hugenschmidt, Fabio Bertolotti, Lorenzo Ridolfi, Roy Jones, Idea
Digital Imaging, Дядов Васил, Novo Group,
Many thanks also to Florian Höch for making ArgyllCMS
more accessible via DisplayCAL,
and contributing a portion of the donations to DiscalGUI from the
following:
Norberto Mari, Evgeny Kalachikhin, Timothy Hope, Robert Dreyer,
Jean-Pierre Labbé, Werner Beetz, Klaus Hanke, Roberto Sabatini,
Jerome Hart, Paul Hudson, Stefan Berndt, Lance Emerson, Nesa
Haustechnik Gmbh, Jean-François Urbain, David Millist, Darren
Coen, Dragomirescu Mihai Dan, Rosedale Llc, Jayson Dear, Andy
Radin, Stefan Knaab, Julian Oppermann, William Meils, Richard
Willox, Lars Altenhain, Ryan Heasley, Kennedy, Jörg Arlandt,
Łukasz Świątkowski, Sebastian Olar, William S. Jarriel, Mr J
Cowley, Illustratrice/Cartoonist E Graphic Designer, George
Roberts, Вячеслав Кузев, Ralph J Baron, Ian K Whitehead,
Christopher Brown, Nicolae Racovita, Peter Pizzati Photography, Ka
Man Choi, Markus Lasermann, Privatverkauf, Jose Ignacio Usoz,
Bennett Andres, Colleen Davis, Keith Luken, Lorenzo Felloni, Wayne
Sanderson, Александр Токарев, Hans Henrik Baek Thogersen, Zach
Wolfe, Michael Weidemann, Aurimas Svedas, Ruven Kübler, Bruce
Jaffe, Jeff Brandt, Andre Fesko, Darcy Delia Creatives L.L.C, Erin
Green, Jef Gamblee, Andre Kaltenbacher, Lensvisions Studio, Pedro
Rosario, M Colmore-Williams, Steven J Carr, Ronald Taylor, Henrik
Nordin, Carly Broaddus, Paul-Clement Keller, Bernhard Zimmermann,
Jeffrey Jeppesen, Belinda Kennedy, Marco Van Kleef, Martin
Hohlweck, Christian Dämgen, Jaswant Madhavan, Andrew Marchal, Marc
Kimana, Richard Crabbe, Rafal Fitt, Jochen Antesberger, Peter
Mclean, Павел Стогов, Joao P N Pereira, Fabien Morange, Marc
Auber, Roger Mueller, 傳宗 林, Kenneth Michaelis, Oleg Bagleybter,
Eugen Latmann, Nuttapol Ruamtharnthong, Ian Scicluna, Riley Brandt
Photography, Kevin O'Gorman, Corey Daley, Augusto Mendes,
Francesco Corsini, Elisabetta Griguol, David Vogt, Christian
Pipeau, Noel Ong, אסף אוחיון, Scott Maclean, Ton Sonneveldt,
Thomas Schreffler, Alun Spencer, Keith Loven, Marc Bäder, Guy
Mangiamele, Pid1 Technical Services, Matthias Siemon, Jessica
Bair, Simon Ransom, Jeffery Webb, Дмитрий Михальцов, Zach Fine,
Sverre Borge, Only Chirons Store, Pure Oasis Studio, Remark
Mercado, Martin Nunlee, Ralf Rapude, Ashley Laughlin, Jory Paul,
James Hunt, Nate Wright, Antons Kenga, Alex Guy Photo, Sebastien
Thobor, Lutz-Rainer Käbberich, Gregor Kofler/Vxweb, Michael Frey,
François Berne, Allen Morrison, Andre Thomas, Christian Bernhardt,
Tarkan Sarim, Jörg Rickmann, 건후 김, Keith Loven, Larry Kraus, David
Root, Joachim Kilchert, Paul Burkala, Nguyễn Minh Sơn, Ivan
Cortazar, Oliver Petz, Bernhard Aeppli, Tomasz Kozik, John Bland,
Gerry Allen, Xucong Zhan, Kitty Guerrilla Films, Llc, Vibo
Photography, Cristian Popescu, Scott Surbrook, Israel Shapiro,
Peter Angelo Lagamayo, Никита Орлов-Бернадский, Jose Ramiro
Laguna, Viktor Novak, Fierce & Flower Limited, David Fencz,
James Ford, Rachita Traian, Yves Gottet, 景峯 呂, Karl-Christian
Thomle, David Brown, James Cramer, Marco Camenisch, Yong Kai Goh,
Duncan Andison, Oleksii Logvin, Ricardo C Gargalaca, Quincy Lee,
Margherita Orlandi, Werk, Thomas Couch, Christoph Schwarz, Jerbay,
Michele Di Tullio, Milind Kothavale, Jack Pearson, Hattie Harris,
Dc Photography, Daniel Muther, Dylan Dowling, Frank Maier, Marius
Ottesen H., Jeremias T., Michael R., Patrick L., Jason J., Jc B.,
Winfried R., Gerold S., Dominik R., Gordon Klaus G., Michael
Tasca, Tero Ojala, Signature Values, Ed Rudolph, Marcin
Galczynski, Andrei Trifonov, Antony Foster, Erlend Ronnekleiv,
David Leitner, Maxime Guedj, Steven Kucharzyk, Campbell Salgado
Studio, Ann Nothrup, Thomas Ramsing, John Dickson, Matthew Erb,
Bruce Bigby, Olaf Merker, Christian Seidel, Niclas Hermes, Lars
Kaijser, Kotaro Sato, Summeraj, Karsten Schneeberger, Aaron Fuchs,
Richard Liptak, Lynn Wei, Jose Thadeu Pinto Dantas Cavalcante,
Francesc Basullas, Christian Stoitner, David Cecil, James Davis,
Online Auctions, Brian Turner, David Skok, Jörn Beutner, Gilles
Bangratz, Yury Shulhevich, Günter Althoff, Christophe Schaer,
Christian Scholz, James Nielson, Stefan Sand, David Ord,
Christopher Arbeiter-Grimus, Juan Luis Boya García, Robert Foster,
Alexander Mccoll, Gerd Roesser, Marco Barbieri, Vidar Hoel,
Michele Zundo, Ruppert Bohle, Nach Somanunt, Myles Shaftel, Jörn
Benn, Francesco Muscolino, Daniel Schmiedchen, Paul Cartwright,
Christopher Patmore, Matt Fretwell, Doris Klingbeil, Michael
Vrana, Alex Christofides, Francois Kayat-Guizol, Thomas Ramsing,
Paul Slabowski, None, Robert Milne, C.M. Barker, Gregory Bullough,
Per Jensen, Christian Ahnen, Wayland Reeves, Ling Tsang, Jarosław
Czerniak, Playmakers Creative Media Group, Bernhard Hager, Martin
Huber, Ray Argall, Keith Gosse, Eric André, Gerald Feichtinger,
Ivar Forss, Peter Dickinson, Gregory Couch, Maarten Paul Van Der
Elst, Ariel Ramirez, Andre Oberhaus, Walter Guinovart Banchero,
Martin Müller, Mikael Kvist, Tom Shapira, Fritjof Hempel, Heinrich
Holtgreve, Nigel Print, Panini-Pro Software, Andrew Johnston,
Stefan Schwenk
Downloads:
On Line Documentation
Download V2.1.2 Argyll Source Code
Download V2.1.2 Main Microsoft Windows
executables
Download V2.1.2 Main Apple OS X
executables
Download V2.1.2 Main Linux x86
Executables
Commercial Use and non-GPL Licensing
Download V2.16 icclib or cgatslib Source
Code
Download DPS Source Code
Download SnoopyPro Source Code or
Executables
ArgyllCMS mailing List Information
After you have downloaded the source or executables, please read the
notes on installing.
Please note that some of the
Linux packages
based on "ArgyllCMS" have been modified in various ways, and may not
work exactly the same as what is distributed here. If something
doesn't work using such a package, please download the unmodified
software from here and re-test before reporting a bug.
Getting Support for ArgyllCMS or
reporting Bugs:
The best way of getting support in using ArgyllCMS or reporting
bugs, is via the ArgyllCMS mailing List,
where you will get the benefit of other knowledgeable people being
able to help you.
You can also email me (Graeme Gill) directly. (See Contact Me
below).
I do scan some of the relevant web forums sporadically, and others
on those forums may be able to help:
For Video and TV calibration and Profiling, the AVS
Forums.
For Film & Video color grading display calibration, Lift Gamma Gain
is worth a look.
For Camera, Photography, Photo Printing and Display profiling, try Luminous
Landscapes.
[ I recommend you Stay away
from DPReview - their heavy commercial censorship makes it
unsuitable for support or discussion. ]
For printing and practical color management, the Apple
ColorSync List is worth looking at (many experts hang out
there),
while Forums like Printer
Knowledge may be better suited to those at a more hobby level.
Other software that uses ArgyllCMS:
DisplayCAL by Florian Höch
The
Little Argyll GUI and A
Color-Managed Linux Workflow by Russell Cottrell
Coloris by Rémi and
Lionel Wetteren.
CoCa by Andrew
Stawowczyk Long
Articles:
SwatchMate Cube, Part 1 - Out of
the box accuracy
SwatchMate Cube, Part 2 - Can it
be improved ?
Modifying the i1i0 table for the
i1pro2
Miscellany:
I'm not sure anyone other than myself will find this useful, but
here is a true 4x19 MSWin Bitmap font -
good for medium resolution displays where smaller anti-aliased
TrueType fonts don't look so good (partly due to anti-aliasing being
done in a gamma encoded space rather than linear light ?). Started
with Bm437_Verite_9x14.FON, but like most 9x14 bitmap fonts this is
just an 8x12 plonked in a 9x14 grid. So inspired by the look of the
MSWindows Terminal 8x12 font that I got used to with an older
display, I modified the Verite 9x14 into a true 9x14 bitmap font.
Can be used in the MSWindows Command Prompt type windows. (A
combination of FontForge and D.W.Emmett's Softy were used to modify
the font.)