Serious photographers & professional photographers spend a lot of money on gadgets for getting the photo print color right. LittleCMS & LProf is a popular Free ICC Profile Maker Software released under GPL open source license.

In order to do that, the color from the picture should match the color on the monitor & the color should be correctly represented on the printed paper as well.

Photographers match up all the colors correctly in a process called Color Profiling. The color sync information is saved in ICC Profile files. If you are a small photo business owner running multiple printers & desktop monitors, an ICC Profile Maker is an important software for your success.

Photographers can re-use the information while printing on different printers without the risk of altering the shades. ICC Profile Makers are costly software & hardware devices often running into hundreds of dollars.

You can download the Free ICC Profile Maker Software from Sourceforge.

The software is available for multiple platforms including the 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All BSD Platforms (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Apple Mac OS X), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) & OS Portable (Source code to work with many OS platforms).

The Free ICC Profiler can be used to calibrate digital imaging devices ranging from Digital Cameras, Scanners to Desktop Monitors. The open source color management system LittleCMS has a GUI tool called Lprof to help do that.

The article on Linux describes Profiling Scanners or Digital Cameras using LittleCMS & LProf. Professional photographers would also get a lot of help with digital color profiling from Norman Koren. Lprof uses methods described in Norman Koren‘s calibration charts.

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