Tifficc (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

tifficc – little cms ICC profile applier for TIFF.

SYNOPSIS

tifficc [options] input.tif output.tif

DESCRIPTION

lcms is a standalone CMM engine, which deals with the color management. It implements a fast transformation between ICC profiles. tifficc is little cms ICC profile applier for TIFF.

OPTIONS

-a: Handle channels > 4 as alpha.
-b: Black point compensation.
-c <0,1,2,3>: Precalculates transform. (0=Off, 1=Normal, 2=Hi-res, 3=LoRes) [defaults to 1]
-e: Embed destination profile.
-g: Marks out-of-gamut colors on softproof.
-h <0,1,2>: Show summary of options and examples.
-i profile: Input profile (defaults to sRGB).
-k <0..400>: Ink-limiting in % (CMYK only).
-l profile: Transform by device-link profile.
-m <0,1,2,3>: SoftProof intent.
-n: Ignore embedded profile on input.
-p profile: Soft proof profile.
-o profile: Output profile (defaults to sRGB).
-s profile: Save embedded profile as <new profile>
-t <0,1,2,3>: Intent (0=Perceptual, 1=Colorimetric, 2=Saturation, 3=Absolute).
-v: Verbose.
-w: Wide output (generates 16 bps tiff).
You can also use following builtins: *Lab – CIE Lab D50 based *XYZ – XYZ *adobe1998RBB – AdobeRGB *colormatchrgb – ColorMatch RGB *applergb – Apple RGB

EXAMPLES

To color correct from scanner to sRGB:
        tifficc -iscanner.icm in.tif out.tif
To convert from monitor1 to monitor2:
        tifficc -imon1.icm -omon2.icm in.tif out.tif
        
To make a CMYK separation:
        tifficc -oprinter.icm inrgb.tif outcmyk.tif
        
To recover sRGB from a CMYK separation:
        tifficc -iprinter.icm incmyk.tif outrgb.tif
To convert from CIELab TIFF to sRGB
        tifficc -iTiffLab8Spac.icm in.tif out.tif

NOTES

For suggestions, comments, bug reports etc. send mail to info [at] littlecms.com.

AUTHOR

This manual page was originally written by Shiju p. Nair <shiju.p [at] gmail.com>, for the Debian project. Modified by Marti Maria to reflect further changes.

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