Industry Overview

Light Illusion is the de-facto standard for display calibration and colour management within the Film, Post-Production, and Broadcast industries, with Display Manufacturers, Home Cinema, and Retail Stores also adopting the advanced calibration capabilities of ColourSpace.

There are different requirements for calibration in different industry segments, but all have one thing in common - accuracy is of paramount importance, with ease of use, speed of operation and agnostic compatibility being equally important for those who need results that can be relied upon, rather than hobbyists intent to dabble.

Film, TV & Broadcast

The Film and TV industry, which encompasses Broadcast and Post-Production, is where all of Light Illusion's tools originate from, as all those involved with Light Illusion have worked within the industry at professional levels.

As a result, the tools provided by Light Illusion have become the de-facto standard for colour management within the industry, from calibration, to colour pipelines & workflows, to on-set look management.

The advanced level of accuracy provided by Light Illusion colour tools has lead many of the world's leading display manufacturers to partner with Light Illusion for display calibration, including Canon, Konvision, Postium, TVLogic, Flanders Scientific, Eizo, Dolby, SmallHD, Convergent Design, NEC, BenQ, and many more.

Display Manufacturers

Manufacturing partnerships enable ColourSpace to be used for full closed-loop colour management, ensuring accurate colour matching for the whole image path for both professional and home cinema users.

Light Illusion also provides display manufacturers with dedicated versions of ColourSpace, enabling ColourSpace to be used for full closed-loop display calibration, guaranteeing the best possible level of calibration for the partner manufacturers and their customers.

Pro. AV

The Pro. AV market requires near perfection when it comes to calibration, and the best way to attain perfection is to use the same system that is the de-facto standard within the professional film and TV industry.

And ColourSpace is the de-facto standard for advanced colour management, guaranteeing the highest possible level of display calibration and colour control, making it the perfect choice for Pro. AV installers looking to offer their customers the best possible colour accuracy.

Home Cinema

Home Cinema users demand near perfection when it comes to calibration, and what better way to attain perfection than by using the same calibration system that is the de-facto standard within the professional film and TV industry?

As this is the basic intent for any calibration process - to match as accurately as possible the original source content as graded - the results attained by ColourSpace are impossible to match through the use of existing traditional consumer calibration systems.

Retail Calibration Service

Home display retail stores can provide calibration services to their TV and display customers, providing end users with a more accurate images than provided out-of-the-box, enabling a more cinematic viewing experience without the end user having to learn display calibration.

Using ColourSpace, with a suitable probe and test patch generator, calibration can be performed in-store, or at the customers home after installation.

MediaMarkt, Sweden, and MediaWorld, Italy, are just two retail groups that already offer a ColourSpace based customer calibration service.

Windows, Mac, Linux & Graphics Programs

Although not an industry in their own right, the calibration of Windows, Mac and Linux systems can throw up some very specific problems as although LUTs are a standard part of any colour critical calibration workflow, such systems are just not 3D LUT compatible in themselves. Instead, such systems rely on using computer and print industry ICC profiles for colour management.

Unfortunately, calibration systems that directly generate ICC profiles are often far from ideal in the results they attain. ColourSpace produces far superior results, and for ICC based calibration will take a 3D calibration LUT and directly convert it into an ICC profile, maintaining the highest possible accuracy.

DICOM Medical

ColourSpace DICOM calibration provides consistent image viewing on any display with 3D LUT capability, or through the use of an external LUT box, matching both grey scale and colour, guaranteeing medical images viewed on one display will match when viewed on any other display.

Through the use of 3D LUTs the level of volumetric calibration achievable far exceeds traditional grey scale only DICOM calibration, maximising the visual assessment of medical images, enhancing the ability to spot items of interest.

Cinematography

Cinematography is where a lot of creative material starts its life, and there are some very specific issue to overcome, from on-set look management through the use of ColourSpace generated LUTs, to a need to match the images captured via different cameras.

ColourSpace has in-built manufacturer profile data for many digital cinematography cameras.

Additionally, MatchLight Image Matching System enables LUTs to be automatically generated by the direct comparison of two or more images captured from different cameras, and create LUTs that therefore match one camera image to another.