Short:    V1.08 ICS - professional color correction for scanners
Author:   wfaust@stud.uni-frankfurt.de (Wolf Faust)
Uploader: wfaust@stud.uni-frankfurt.de (Wolf Faust)
Type:     hard/misc
Replace:  hard/misc/ICS.lha

With ICS you can make your scans look like from the professionals.
By  using  ICS  scan  quality  is  DRAMATICLY(!)  improved without
requiring the user to manualy adjust scan colors while scanning.

This is the first release of ICS after nearly two years development.
Support for ICC Profiles and more type of devices (printers,...)
is planned for the next major release.

ICS already is directly supported by ScanQuix, ScanTrax and
ImageFX.  Other scanner drivers authors will soon add direct ICS
support to their scanner drivers.  But ICS can also work
independent of any specific scanner software using a stand-alone
image file converter.

ICS does work in 3 steps:

 - You do scan a calibration target with your scanner software
   and use the incl. ScanTarget programm to create a profile
   for your scanner.

 - You do select your monitor or standard (PAL, sRGB, NTSC,...)
   you want to color correct the scan for.

 - Now all scans with your scanner software will be color corrected
   automaticly.

It's as easy as that...

ICS  supports  standard IT 8.7 (ISO 12641) from Kodak, Agfa, Fuji,
CorelDraw/PhotoPaint and "Epson Color Reference Chart" calibration
targets.





Changes since V1.07:

- Some "hacks" were added so that color correcting RGB data
  is now MUCH faster. Also speed of the LUT file calculation
  was slightly improved.
- Removed a bug causing not all memory to be freed.

Wolf Faust - 03.11.1999