Color Management Part 1

We then add one more piece of information to the color data we've collected: our knowledge about how humans see color—as opposed to how the instrument sees color. Some very smart people at the CIE conducted Standard Observer Studies that resulted in three more curves: red, green, and blue.

Now, if we multiply our spectral curve data by the illuminant curve and by each of the three Standard Observer curves, we have what is known as xyz data—the DNA of color. How we use that DNA is the subject for our next installment, which will run in the October issue of packagePRINTING.