Craig Hockenberry is writing a book about color management for “A Book Apart”. If you want to understand what makes the latest Apple screens (iMac 5K, 9.7” iPad Pro) stand out of the crowd:
Apple is in a unique position with regard to color management. They own a technology called ColorSync that first saw the light of day in 1993 with System 7.1 on the Mac. It’s also been integrated at a system-level for all of the OS X releases. It’s a very mature technology that recently made its way to mobile in the iOS 9.3 release.
On the other side of the coin, Android has no color management. Companies like Samsung are going to find it impossible to pull off something like True Tone and DCI-P3 without the aid of color management.
Brandon Chester from AnandTech also wrote a comprehensive piece on what to expect from the new DCI-P3 gamut of the 9.7” iPad Pro:
With a larger color gamut, my biggest question was how Apple was handing color management. A simple explanation of color management is that it’s the process through which a device should transform the original colors of a piece of content into a display’s target color space. Effective color management is critical for dealing with content that doesn’t match a display’s color space, in this case of course ensuring sRGB content is rendered correctly on a DCI-P3 display.
Friday, April 22, 2016
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