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Glossary
Calibration The checking, adjusting or standardizing of a device. See also Printer
Color Calibration.
CIE The Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage. The main international
organization concerned with color appearance and color measurement.
CIE Lab The CIE L*, a*, b* color space where:
L* represents lightness
a* represents redness/greenness
b* represents yellowness/blueness
This is one of the most popular device independent color spaces.
CMYK Color Values The numerical color values for the primaries Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and
Black which are used by printers and other output devices. These colors
are referred to as device dependent colors. These colors are typically
generated by applications, such as Adobe Photoshop.
Color Appearance The perception of the color or colors of an object or image. This can be
described in terms of hue, saturation, chroma, and lightness. There are a
large number of human perception factors and color reproduction factors
that determine the color appearance of a printed page.
Color Management The process of managing color reproduction. This often involves doing
color matching between various devices, such as scanners, monitors,
printers and presses.
Color Patches See Printed Color Swatches.
Color Swatches See Printed Color Swatches.
Color Transform This refers to the portion of an ICC profile that is the mapping of colors
from CIE Lab color values to and from CMYK color values.
ColorSync Apple's implementation of ICC-based color management.