TIFICC(1)

💖 TIFICC(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for tificc, and yes you're gonna understand all of it, i promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

tificc — little cms ICC profile applier for TIFF. that's the whole vibe. it takes a TIFF, it applies profiles, it slays 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

tificc [options] input.tif output.tif

in, out, done. iconic.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so lcms is a standalone CMM engine, right? it deals with color management, and it implements a fast transformation between ICC profiles. that's its whole thing. main character energy fr fr.

and tificc? tificc is a little cms ICC profile applier for TIFF. that's literally it. no cap. 🎀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -a — handle channels > 4 as alpha. yes bestie, more than four channels, we're being fancy.
• -b — black point compensation. do it.
• -c NUM — precalculates the transform. 0=Off, 1=Normal, 2=Hi-res, 3=LoRes. [defaults to 1].
• -d NUM — observer adaptation state (abs.col. only), (0..1.0, float value). [defaults to 0.0].
• -e — embed destination profile. put it in there, keep it safe 🥺
• -g — marks out-of-gamut colors on softproof. it's giving "hey bestie, that color isn't gonna make it".
• -h NUM — show summary of options and examples. 0=help, 1=Examples, 2=Built-in profiles, 3=Contact information.
• -i profile — input profile (defaults to sRGB).
• -k inklimit — ink-limiting in % (CMYK only), (0..400.0, float value). [default 400.0].
• -l profile — transform by device-link profile.
• -m TODO: check if values outside 0..3 are possible — SoftProof intent. [defaults to 0]. yes the TODO is literally in the manpage, we're keeping it, the devs said what they said 💀
• -n — ignore embedded profile on input. rude, but valid.
• -o profile — output profile (defaults to sRGB).
• -p profile — soft proof profile.
• -s newprofile — save embedded profile as newprofile.
• -t NUM — rendering intent:
  • 0=Perceptual [default]
  • 1=Relative colorimetric
  • 2=Saturation
  • 3=Absolute colorimetric
  • 10=Perceptual preserving black ink
  • 11=Relative colorimetric preserving black ink
  • 12=Saturation preserving black ink
  • 13=Perceptual preserving black plane
  • 14=Relative colorimetric preserving black plane
  • 15=Saturation preserving black plane
• -v — verbose. tell me everything bestie 🗣️
• -w NUM — output depth (8, 16 or 32). use 32 for floating-point.

👑 BUILT-IN PROFILES 👑

these come free, no download required, we love a freebie 🌸

• *Lab2 -- D50-based v2 CIEL*a*b
• *Lab4 -- D50-based v4 CIEL*a*b
• *Lab -- D50-based v4 CIEL*a*b
• *XYZ -- CIE XYZ (PCS)
• *sRGB -- sRGB color space
• *Gray22 - Monochrome of Gamma 2.2
• *Gray30 - Monochrome of Gamma 3.0
• *null - Monochrome black for all input
• *Lin2222- CMYK linearization of gamma 2.2 on each channel

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okay this is the part you actually came for, let's go 🧚

to color correct from scanner to sRGB:

tificc -iscanner.icm in.tif out.tif

to convert from monitor1 to monitor2:

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

to make a CMYK separation:

tificc -oprinter.icm inrgb.tif outcmyk.tif

to recover sRGB from a CMYK separation:

tificc -iprinter.icm incmyk.tif outrgb.tif

to convert from CIELab TIFF to sRGB:

tificc -i*Lab in.tif out.tif

periodt. you're basically a color scientist now 💜

🍓 NOTES 🍓

for suggestions, comments, bug reports etc. send mail to info@littlecms.com. they wanna hear from you, bestie, don't be shy ✨

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

jpgicc(1), linkicc(1), psicc(1), transicc(1)

the whole friend group. go say hi 🫶

🎀 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 👑

ngl the vibe check on this page is dated October 23, 2004 and it's still serving, still slaying, still TIFICC(1) 💖✨ bye bestie, go convert something gorgeous 🌈