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The Color Space
Conversion functions implement features that change the way that
colors are represented in images. Today’s devices represent colors
in many different ways. Some devices, such as printers, accept 1
bit monochrome images, others accept 24 bit full color images. But
there is also a difference in the methods used to encode colors.
Some devices, like display devices, work with the RGB color space.
Others devices such as printers, may use CMYK colors space. The
Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX has over 60 color space functions,
which can be grouped into three sets of functions. There is a group
of function to convert a Device Independent Bitmap, a group to convert
buffers and a group to convert a single pixel to any of the color
spaces.
Color
spaces or color models provides a standard methods of defining and
representing colors. There are many existing color spaces and most
of them represent each color as a point in a 3D coordinate system.
Each color space is optimized for a well-defined application area.
Some color spaces like RGB, CMY, CMYK, YIQ are specific to different
hardware devices, like printers, color monitors, TV broadcast. Other
color space like the HIS or HSV color space is frequently used for
color manipulation.
Black Ice imaging
tools currently support the following 9 color spaces:
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