Re: color space of a scanned image

Dear Duane,

Thanks for your reply.
When you said RGB, do you mean sRGB?
When a scanner is set up, the ICC profile is installed automatically and is
used when it scans, is that correct?
Is there any rule here how I can determine it? I did have checked the manual
and specification of the scanner, but didn't get anything related to color
space.

wil.

"vonschwartzwalder" <vonschwartzwalder@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There are two likely possibilities:

1) if you got a JPEG, it's YCbCr that is converted to RGB when decoded
2) any other file type on Windoze is RGB

If you used an ICC profile, you probably got sRGB, so converting to
L*a*b* is possible.

Is that what you are after, or is there a real question behind this
one?

duane

wil wrote:
Hi all,

I read a lot of materials on the web related to color management but
still could not answer this question.

I used a HP flatbed scanner connected to a Windows XP PC and created a
few scanned samples. I need to further manipulate them, and in
particular I want to perform a few experiments that require converting
the data into L*a*b* color space. Before doing this, I however don't
know what color space the image files are now in.

Anyone can help me to figure this out? Is there anything I can look
into to find this out? Is it related to the setting of the ICC profile
installed with the scanner?

I appreciate for your kind help. Thanks a lot.

wil.



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