Understanding Tone Value Part 5 in a 5-part series on color measurement fundamentals The terms tone value, tone value increase, dot gain, and ΔTV are often confused. Tone value (TV) and tone value increase (TVI) are two of the … Continued
Understanding Density Part 4 in a 5-part series on color measurement fundamentals Density is one of the earliest metrics used to quantify the physical absorption properties of an object. It was originally developed for the photography industry, to control … Continued
Understanding CIE L*a*b* and ΔE Part 3 in a 5-part series on color measurement fundamentals The second article in this series, “Understanding Light and Color Vision”, described how color is detected and processed by the human visual system and … Continued
Understanding Light and Color Vision Part 2 in a 5-part series on color measurement fundamentals Color measurement is not intuitive. An object’s physical attributes, such as length and weight, can be easily measured by a calibrated instrument. We might … Continued
Understanding Spectral Reflectance Part 1 in a 5-part series on color measurement fundamentals Spectral reflectance is the percentage of incident light reflecting off an object and is the primary unit of color measurement for color spectrophotometers. This section will … Continued