What Is a Color Profile?

Color profiles characterize the color spaces for devices such as LCD monitors, printers, scanners, and cameras. Color profiles, also known as ICC profiles, are defined by the International Color Consortium (ICC) and enable the accurate representation of colors as well as conversion between color spaces.

For example, color profiles enable a user to convert an image from an LCD monitor using RGB (red, green, and blue) to a printer using CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). Color spaces include RGB, NTSC, YCbCr, CMYK, and L*a*b*.

For more detail, see Image Processing Toolbox.

Examples and How To

What Is Image Processing Toolbox? (2:12) - Video
Color-Based Segmentation Using the L*a*b* Color Space - Example
Color-Based Segmentation Using K-Means Clustering - Example
Image Processing Made Easy (31:14) - Video

Software Reference

Converting Color Data Between Color Spaces - Documentation
Steps for Converting Between Color Profiles - Blog
Color Space and Color Profile Conversions - Function List

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Image Processing Tips, Techniques, and Code

Get step-by-step instructions for color segmentation, image region analysis, and watershed segmentation with MATLAB.

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