LaCie blue eye pro
Color Management
User Manual
page 10
3.2. Monitor Calibration And
Device Profiles
The LaCie blue eye pro implements a convenient solution to
these problems. It entails two steps:
Step 1:
The monitor is set to a calibrated state that is described
in terms of its Brightness, Gamma and White Point Tempera-
ture. This allows the color-conscious professional to knowingly
choose the range of colors that will be displayed on the monitor;
and in particular to be certain that the colors displayed on the
monitor correspond to a standard environment.
Step 2:
An ICC (International Color Consortium) monitor profile
is created and systematically embedded in the artwork produced
from the professional’s workstation. The ICC profile acts as a
translator between RGB values and absolute colorimetric mea-
surements that are expressed in a scientific color model such as
CIELAB or Yxy.
By taking into account the translation mechanisms contained in
the ICC profile, another computer monitor (or any other device,
such as a printer, for example) can reproduce the exact same
absolute colors even though its components, settings and aging
may be significantly different. The benefit is that both profession-
als see the same colors, and that there is no color shift across
the workflow.
PROFILE
CONNECTION
SPAC E
y
x
R G B
ICC Profil e
MONITOR 1
y
x
R G B
ICC Profile
MONITOR 2
MONITOR 1
MONITOR 2
ICC Profiles form the links
in your image chain be-
tween device-dependent
monitors and the device-
independent PCS.
