TIFFICC(1)

💖 TIFFICC — the little cms ICC profile applier for TIFF 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about tifficc from the General Commands Manual — she's a whole vibe and she's about to fix your colors fr fr. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tifficc [options] input.tif output.tif

that's it. that's the whole energy. give her options, an input TIFF, an output TIFF, and she ate. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so lcms is a standalone CMM engine — as in, it handles the color management, the whole entire thing — and it implements a fast transformation between ICC profiles. iconic behavior honestly.

and tifficc? she's the little cms ICC profile applier for TIFF. that's her job. that's her main character moment. 🦋

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

one bullet per flag, no skipping, we do NOT leave anyone on read:

• -a — handle channels > 4 as alpha. yeah, all of them. 🫶
• -b — black point compensation. do it.
• -c <0,1,2,3> — precalculates the transform. 0=Off, 1=Normal, 2=Hi-res, 3=LoRes. [defaults to 1] ✨
• -e — embed the destination profile.
• -g — marks out-of-gamut colors on softproof. she's gonna call them out, respectfully. 👀
• -h <0,1,2> — show summary of options and examples.
• -i profile — input profile (defaults to sRGB).
• -k <0..400> — ink-limiting in % (CMYK only). so specific, we love her.
• -l profile — transform by device-link profile.
• -m <0,1,2,3> — SoftProof intent.
• -n — ignore embedded profile on input. not me ignoring my own past self 😭
• -p profile — soft proof profile.
• -o profile — output profile (defaults to sRGB).
• -s profile — save embedded profile as <new profile>.
• -t <0,1,2,3> — Intent (0=Perceptual, 1=Colorimetric, 2=Saturation, 3=Absolute).
• -v — Verbose. spill the tea, girl.
• -w — Wide output (generates 16 bps tiff).

🧚 and you can ALSO use these builtins 🧚

• *Lab — CIE Lab D50 based
• *XYZ — XYZ
• *adobe1998RBB — AdobeRGB
• *colormatchrgb — ColorMatch RGB
• *applergb — Apple RGB

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

these are the moments. copy them exactly, bestie, they're already perfect:

To color correct from scanner to sRGB:

tifficc -iscanner.icm in.tif out.tif

To convert from monitor1 to monitor2:

tifficc -imon1.icm -omon2.icm in.tif out.tif

To make a CMYK separation:

tifficc -oprinter.icm inrgb.tif outcmyk.tif

To recover sRGB from a CMYK separation:

tifficc -iprinter.icm incmyk.tif outrgb.tif

To convert from CIELab TIFF to sRGB:

tifficc -iTiffLab8Spac.icm in.tif out.tif

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📬 NOTES 📬

for suggestions, comments, bug reports etc., send mail to info@littlecms.com. she reads her inbox, she's just busy being iconic. 💌

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

jpegicc(1), icc2ps(1), icclink(1), icctrans(1), wtpt(1)

the whole friend group, honestly. go say hi. 🫶

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💀 AUTHOR 💀

This manual page was originally written by Shiju p. Nair <shiju.p@gmail.com>, for the Debian project. Modified by Marti Maria to reflect further changes. legends only, no cap. 🎀

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💖 okay that's the whole page, you're officially a tifficc girlie now. go color-correct something and slay. ✨

this was the TIFFICC(1) page from the General Commands Manual, dated October 23, 2004 — vintage, but she still serves. periodt. 💅🌈