User manual

9 • SCANNING TO RGB

ColorQuartet 5.0 Pro

9•Scanning to RGB

Choosing an RGB profile for RGB output

If you are scanning to RGB for a film recorder or other dedicated RGB output device, you must

choose an appropriate RGB Proﬁle for that device from the menu in the Color Deﬁnition section

of the Scan Setup

window or the Output Proﬁles section of the Magic Touch window.

• The menu lists profiles from three sources:

• The RGB Proﬁle affects the output scan as well as the RGB values in ColorQuartet’s densi-

tometer.

• It does not affect the image in the feedback window or the LCH values in the densitometer.

Embedding output profiles

You can embed ICC output profiles in your TIFF and JPEG scans so they can be read by third-

party programs such as Photoshop. On the Macintosh, this feature is available if you have ColorSync

2.6 or higher.

• Macintosh: Activate the Embed check box next to the profile name in the Color Deﬁnition sec-

tion of the Scan Setup window.

• PC: Activate the Embed ICC Proﬁles check box in the Color Deﬁnition section of the Scan Setup

window.

• At the time of writing, information about how to set up Photoshop to use this feature could be

found on Apple’s web site at:

http://www.apple.com/creative/ama/0102s/photoshop.html

Using ColorQuartet output profiles in other programs

On the Macintosh, you can make the ColorQuartet output profiles visible to third-party pro-

grams by copying them into the ColorSync Proﬁles folder in your System folder.

• The simplest and safest way to do this is to find the RGB proﬁles folder in the ColorQuartet X.X

folder, make an alias of it, and place the alias in the ColorSync Proﬁles folder.

>>> Related topics:

• Apple ColorSync profiles from your System folder (Macintosh only).

• ScanMate profiles supplied with ColorQuartet.

• Profiles that you create yourself using ColorQuartet’s RGB Output Calibra-

tion routine or a third-party tool for ICC profiles, or that you obtain from

third party sources and store in the ColorQuartet X.X folder or one of its sub-

folders.