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PatchTool Help Version 7.1 PatchTool Help © 2007-2020 Danny Pascale All rights reserved. No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems - without the written permission of the publisher. Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it. In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document. Published in November 2020 in Montreal / Quebec / Canada. PatchTool Help -2- Version 7.1 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................ 7 1.1 WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH PATCHTOOL .................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION ................................................................................................................. 9 2. THE PATCHTOOL WINDOWS AND DIALOGS ............................................................................ 11 2.1 THE MAIN “PATCHTOOL” WINDOW ....................................................................................................................... 11 2.2 THE OPENED FILE WINDOW ..................................................................................................................................... 17 2.2.1 The “Patch view” tab ........................................................................................................................................ 17 2.2.2 The “Patch view” “Re-map” menu ................................................................................................................. 21 2.2.3 The “Patch view” patch edition mode ........................................................................................................... 29 2.2.4 The “Target Scramble/Analysis” dialog (Re-map) ....................................................................................... 32 2.2.5 The “Tabular data” tab ..................................................................................................................................... 36 2.2.6 The interaction between “Patch view” and “Tabular data” ........................................................................ 41 2.2.7 The “3D graph” tab ........................................................................................................................................... 43 2.3 THE “COMPARE” WINDOW ....................................................................................................................................... 49 2.3.1 The “Compare” “Patch view” tab ................................................................................................................... 49 2.3.2 The “Compare” “Tabular data” tab ................................................................................................................ 53 2.3.3 The “Compare” “Stats” tab ............................................................................................................................. 54 2.3.4 The “Compare” “Display data” tab ................................................................................................................ 57 2.3.5 The “Compare” “xy graph” tab ....................................................................................................................... 60 2.4 THE “INFO” WINDOW ................................................................................................................................................ 61 2.4.1 Using the “Info” window with multiple opened files .................................................................................. 65 2.4.2 Making a screenshot of the “Info” window .................................................................................................. 67 2.5 THE “PATCHTOOL EXPORT” DIALOG .................................................................................................................... 69 2.5.1 The Export “Data” tab ..................................................................................................................................... 69 2.5.2 The Export “Image” tab ................................................................................................................................... 77 2.5.3 The Export “Swatches” tab ............................................................................................................................. 80 2.5.4 The Export “ChromaChecker” tab ................................................................................................................. 81 2.5.5 Tutorial: Exporting an IT8.7/4 target to be measured using an i1Pro ..................................................... 83 2.6 THE “MISSING INFO” DIALOG ................................................................................................................................. 89 2.7 THE “IMPORT CXF2” DIALOG .................................................................................................................................. 91 2.8 THE “IMPORT CXF3” DIALOG .................................................................................................................................. 95 2.9 THE “UCS IMPORT” DIALOG .................................................................................................................................... 97 2.10 THE “IMPORT ADOBE SWATCHES” DIALOG ..................................................................................................... 99 2.11 THE “PREFERENCES” DIALOG .......................................................................................................................... 101 2.12 THE “INSTRUMENT INFO” DIALOG .................................................................................................................. 109 2.13 THE “ABOUT PATCHTOOL” WINDOW ............................................................................................................. 113 3. THE TOOLS ...................................................................................................................................... 115 3.1 AVERAGE .................................................................................................................................................................... 115 3.2 BABELCOLOR CT&A EXPORT ................................................................................................................................ 119 3.3 COMPARE .................................................................................................................................................................... 121 3.4 CORRECTION MATRIX .............................................................................................................................................. 123 3.5 CUSTOM ILLUMINANTS ............................................................................................................................................ 127 PatchTool Help -3- Version 7.1 3.6 DISPLAY-CHECK ........................................................................................................................................................ 131 3.6.1 Supported instruments (Display-Check and Display-Reader) .................................................................. 132 3.6.2 The Display-Check interface .......................................................................................................................... 137 3.6.3 Selecting a Quick-Test ..................................................................................................................................... 141 3.6.4 Doing a Display-Check with a PatchTool file ............................................................................................. 142 3.6.5 Factors which can affect display measurements ......................................................................................... 143 3.6.6 Display-Check examples ................................................................................................................................. 147 3.6.7 Using a Color Correction Matrix in Display-Check ................................................................................... 156 3.7 DISPLAY-READER ...................................................................................................................................................... 159 3.7.1 Display-Reader CGATS saving options ....................................................................................................... 163 3.8 EMISSION-READER ................................................................................................................................................... 165 3.8.1 Emission-Reader White Point measurement dialog ................................................................................... 168 3.8.2 Emission-Reader Unconstrained measurements