BabelColor [MAC]

BabelColor CT&A lets you select, compare, and convert color samples from twenty preset RGB spaces, and a custom space that you can define with any Illuminant, primaries and gamma, in a color-managed environment. You can also select and convert colors from color catalogues (Color Decks); the provided catalogues are the colors of British Standard 5252, FED-STD-595B, Munsell, and RAL CLASSIC, and you can create your own catalogue by exporting a color list (ex. A Pantone color list saved in CxF format) using the 'BabelColor CT&A Export' dialog of the PatchTool program (purchase of PatchTool not required for this export).

When connected to an Eye-One Pro (from X-Rite), you get these powerful spectral tools: a full featured densitometer; a RAL DESIGN converter tool; a unique set of Metamerism analysis tools to evaluate the constancy (i.e. shift) of colors under various lights, including two of your own lights; ambient illumination (ex.: light booths) and monitor evaluation tools based on ISO 3664, with the possibility of printing a single page report for compliance assessment; a multi-purpose graph tool where two inputs in any measurement mode (Emission, Ambient, Flash, or Reflectance) can be compared; and a set of tools to measure paper whiteness, brightness, fluorescence, and opacity, as well as measure white and black backings compliance.

For photographers, press operators, graphic and web designers, product and textile designers, scientists, hobbyists.

What's New

Version 3.0:

• The program is now color-managed. The patches color in the main screen and in Spectral Tools are corrected using the default, or user-selected, ICC display profile.
• Spectral Tools - Whiteness : Added a set of tools to measure paper whiteness, brightness, fluorescence, and opacity. There are also tools to check if white and black backings are compliant. Some accessories are required; see the Specifications for more information.
• Spectral Tools - Whiteness : Use this tool to measure color patches with and without UV-cut with only a non-UV-cut Eye-One. A UV-blocking filter is required; see the Specifications for more information.
• Spectral Tools - Metamerism Index : There are now two custom Ambient inputs instead of one.
• Spectral Tools - Metamerism Index : You can save a measured Ambient illuminant to a file and load the illuminant from a file.
• Spectral Tools - ISO 3664+ : You can print well formatted one-page reports which contains information dedicated to compliance reports.
• Spectral Tools - ISO 3664+ : You can load an Ambient spectrum from a file instead of having to measure it.
• Custom RGB space: added the L* (L-star) tone response curve in the preset gamma list.
• Main screen : Additional patch layouts are available when increasing the screen dimensions. Compare color patches on various backgrounds and see how text of each color looks like on black and white backgrounds, as well as on a background of the other color.
• Main screen : The chromaticity diagram is now represented in color to help select a colors with a mouse-click, and the coordinates are shown while moving the mouse over the diagram.
• Main screen : You can select a color on the chromaticity diagram with a mouse left-click or a mouse right-click (ctrl + click on a one-button Mac mouse) and assign the input respectively to one space or the other.
• Main screen : Added the option to show the Planckian locus in the chromaticity diagram.
• Added a Page Setup menu to set the margins, paper size, and paper orientation prior to printing.
• Spectral Tools - Graph : You can save an image at twice the screen resolution for improved quality when printing.
• Spectral Tools - ISO 3664+ : Updated the requirements to those of ISO 3664:2009(E) (essentially, the expected display Luminance is now 160 cd/m2 instead of 100 cd/m2)
• Main screen : The eciRGB 1.0 space has been updated to eciRGB_v2, with a L* (L-star) tone response curve.
• Main screen : You can change the instrument measurement mode with the mouse popup menu.
• The measuring instrument serial number and UV filter information is included in saved files and reports.
• The saved files and reports have been reviewed for presentation uniformity.
• Will show a warning message and not an error message when trying to save a file which is opened by another application, or locked.
• (Mac OS X-Intel) The main screen gray background is now uniform on program start; before the fix, it was required to resize the display to refresh the background.

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.2 or later