Custom Color ICC gives you the ability to edit:

• An ICC output profile in the output device color space (RGB or CMYK)
• The input transform of the output profile, for situations where it is necessary to render from one device space to another, such as simulating a proofing system on a desktop printer or on the monitor display
• Both sides of an ICC device link profile (input side or output side): RGB-RGB, RGB-CMYK, CMYK-RGB, CMYK-CMYK
• Any of the four rendering intents for ICC profiles: Photographic, Relative Colorimetric, Absolute Colorimetric, or Saturation

No Instruments Needed
Custom Color ICC helps you achieve high-quality color results without instruments. Custom Color ICC includes an extensive collection of ICC profiles for a variety of professional output devices that can be tuned for your specific process to create a unique ICC profile. So you get the best of all possibilities: No investment in instruments, the benefits of CMS production, and editing with familiar PHOTOSHOP tools.

Tuning Speed and Flexibility
Custom Color ICC is also used as a complementary tool to ICC output profile building, such as KODAK COLORFLOW ICC Newsfile Tools, to fine-tune a measurement-based profile for local viewing conditions or shop preferences, or to impart a particular "look" for a specific customer.

How it Works
Editing the color accuracy of an ICC profile is as easy as color-editing an image in PHOTOSHOP. The image edits are converted to a profile through Kodak's patented Tracer technology. The Tracer pixels represent the entire CMYK or RGB color space. As global edits are made to the image, the edits are accumulated in the Tracer; when you are satisfied, the edits are applied to the profile.

PHOTOSHOP Makes the Difference
Custom Color ICC can use all the PHOTOSHOP Image Adjust tools: Levels, Curves, Color Balance, Selective Color, Replace Color, and so on, to define global color corrections. Other more specialized features include:

Color Range Selection Tool—You can define a particular color region for use with any global color correction tool.

Adjustment Layers—You can build edit lists so you can easily modify individual menu adjustments if you don't achieve the color you want during a profile editing session.

Color-in-Color Editing
The unique power of Custom Color ICC is that you can also isolate and adjust specific color areas such as flesh tones, neutrals, reds, and browns just as you might when editing a production image for output. Using PHOTOSHOP Selective Color and Replace Color tools, color regions can be modified without affecting the neutral gray balance, or even adjoining color regions. A color region mask from the Color Range tool, or Replace Color's built-in color mask, offers a feathering effect that is also captured resulting in smooth transitions between edited and unedited color regions.