Pantone Colorvision Spyder Driver Download' title='Pantone Colorvision Spyder Driver Download' />X Rite i. Profiler Scanner profiling improves scan accuracy with ICC profiles. Im testing the software with a fairly basic desktop scanner. The software is aimed at very high quality scanners, including those for film negatives and positives,Other i. XRite i1Profiler V1. Profiler software. Works with transparency and reflective scanners to create accurate ICC profiles. Profiler functionality is listed at our i. Profiler main page, where well include links to other reviews. Note that you need a licensed version of i. Profiler that supports printer profiling for this functionality. It does not work if you have the version that just does monitor calibration. The examples that will be shown are using Apple Macs. The software generally works in the same way on Windows machines Win. Note This review updated after I found that my original Colourchecker SG card was faulty. Scanner profiling involves scanning a known colour target and comparing what should be seen by the scanner, with what it actually produces in the scan file. These differences are used by the software to build an ICC colour profile for your scanner. When I last looked at scanner profiling with the i. This target printed sheet of coloured patches is not supported in the current software. It does allow for using both the standard Color. Checker card and the more complex SG version. A number of third party scanner targets are also supported. X Rite Color. Checker 2. X Rite Color. Checker SG see notes in conclusionsLaser. Soft Reflective IT 8. Laser. Soft Transmissive 45 and 3. Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software. IT 8. 71. Wolf Faust Reflective IT 8. Wolf Faust Transmissive 45 and 3. IT 8. 71. Scanner profiling adds another workflow option to i. Profiler. Its pretty easy to use you scan a target, and drop the image onto the window. Quite a few specialist targets are directly supported. The input screen initially offers advice on scan requirements. The procedures for creating profiles are very dependent on your scanner software, so Ive gone for the very basic Image capture application, thats included as standard on any Mac. The main requirements are to be able to scan without the software attempting any image correction you can see that Ive turned off all the various options. Scanning the SG target gives me a TIFF file but it doesnt work. OK, Im just going to cheat, by opening the file in Photoshop and resaving in uncompressed format if the compression is lossless in the scanned TIFF file then it wont make much difference Id also like to have scanned at 1. The new file is accepted, and the software attempts to match up the patches with what it expectsRotating the image matches up the green squares with actual coloured patches. The software doesnt flag an error, but after I spotted that the scan above was upside down, I rotated it 1. The only thing I really need to do next is give the profile a name when its created. All is not well though. The profile is created, but with warnings. It turns out that my SG card actually had a wrong colour patch, which threw off the measurement process. Heres the scan of a brand new cardTrying a new card, I got this result without the warning. I decided to have another go at scanning, with the standard Color. Checker card. Its detected by the software, from another scan with Image capture also converted to an uncompressed TIFFThis time, the software is happy with the data quality. I now have two profiles for the scanner, one made with each target I have the third profile made with the SG card with the faulty patchUsing the scanner profiles. Your scanner software may be able to directly make use of the created profile, but with the very simple software, I have to assign a profile in Photoshop, to any image file I want to work with. Download Office Xp Updates. If you assign a profile, it doesnt change the actual numerical values of each pixel it changes their meaning according to the profileHowever, its much better to work in a consistent colour space for your editing. I might use s. RGB for web use, or Adobe. Im printing. Do note that your scanner may exceed the gamut of the space you are using. Move your mouse over the image below to see a warning in red of areas that are outside of the s.