Little CMS Color Engine (lcms2) is a small-footprint color management engine, with special focus on accuracy and performance.
It uses the International Color Consortium standard (ICC), which is the modern standard when regarding to color management. The ICC specification is widely used and is referred to in many International and other de-facto standards. It was approved as an International Standard, ISO 15076-1, in 2005.
This is free and open source software.
- Deals with color management stuff.
- CMM engine; it implements fast transforms between ICC profiles.
- Standalone engine; it doesn’t need ICM or ColorSync to work.
- Full implementation of ICC specification 4.4, supports all kind of V2 and V4 profiles.
- Widely portable across many platforms.
Website: www.littlecms.com/color-engine
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Developer: Marti Maria
License: MIT License
lcms2 is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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