Applications

From ColourWiki

This side is meant to collect the various application demands for an colour management system.—

Table of contents

Open Source

  • Cairo — a cross platform 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices
  • CinePaint — motion pictures retouching and 16-bit photo editing application
  • CommonPrintDialog (http://wiki.openusability.org/wiki/printing/index.php/Photo_printers_parameter_specifications#Color_Management_and_the_CPD) cross toolkit printing dialog for Linux
  • CUPS (http://cups.org) — printing software.
  • Geeqie (http://geeqie.sf.net) — a lightweight Gtk+ based image viewer
  • digiKam — an advanced digital photo management application
  • Ghostscript — an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
  • GIMP — popular photo retouching application
  • Gnome — a desktop environment and development platform for unix systems
  • GraphicsMagick (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/) — swiss army knife of image processing
  • Gutenprint (http://gutenprint.org) — a set of very high quality drivers for printers, with particular emphasis on inkjets.
  • ICC Examin (http://www.oyranos.org/icc-examin) — a ICC profile viewer
  • ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.net) — image editing collection.
  • Inkscape — a vector graphics editor.
  • KDE — the K Desktop Environment based on Qt for unix systems
  • Krita — a high level raster images manipulation application of the KOffice suite.
  • Mozilla — a web browser.
  • PhotoPrint — is designed to assist in the process of printing digital photographs.
  • Rawstudio (http://rawstudio.org) — RAW images processing application
  • Scribus — an open source page layout application.
  • sK1 (http://sk1.sourceforge.net) — vector graphics application, evolved from Skencil
  • UFRaw (http://ufraw.sourceforge.net) — RAW images processing application
  • VIPS (http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS) — a free image processing system.

Proprietary

  • Adobe Reader (former Adobe Acrobat Reader) PDF viewer
  • Adobe Illustrator (http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/main.html) vector drawing
  • Adobe InDesign (http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/main.html) graphics layout
  • Adobe Photoshop general pixel image manipulation
  • Bibble (http://www.bibblelabs.com/) photo raw converter
  • Corel DRAW (http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Products/Display&pfid=1047024307335&pid=1047022690654) general image manipulation
  • DALiM (http://www.dalim.com/de/technologies/linux/) graphic arts workflow software company
  • Flash Player (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/color_correction_as3/) interactive media player used in www pages
  • Pixel general pixel image manipulation
  • Lightzone (http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/index.html) photo raw converter
  • QuarkXPress (http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/) graphics layout
  • Xara LX (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/download/) general vector image manipulation

CMM's

CMMs can be found here: Colour Matching Moduls

CMS's

In the sense of a operating system colour management system:

  • Apple's ColorSync
  • Microsoft's WCS (previous ICM)
  • Wine's Wrapper to build a Windows ICM compatible API
  • Oyranos a portable open source CMS
  • colord (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/) open source CMS