ABSTRACT
Colour values must be interpreted and converted between colour spaces and decisions must be made about how to deal with out-of-gamut colours. For most imaging applications, this process is dealt with by a colour management system. A colour management system is a collection of software tools used to manage the processes of colour specification and communication through an imaging chain. There are a number of fundamental steps required to achieve the main objective of device-independent colour translation. The approach used in the mapping of out-of-gamut colours needs to be flexible and should be defined with reference to the reproduction aims of various different imaging applications. A single colour transformation is required for such a system, translating colour values directly device to device between the two colour spaces. The architecture is based around a reference colour space using the colour specification method defined by the CIE.
