BlackCobbler® provides end-to-end Color Management services, remotely, to Studios, Post Production Houses, Colorists, Editors, Visual Artists, Photographers, High-end Home Theater owners, Printing/Scanning service providers etc. worldwide. We have high level of expertise in generating and manipulating color transforms (3DLUTs/ICC profiles), for display calibration, color processing, creative imagery, printer calibration, scanner calibration, camera calibration, camera color space conversion etc.

Display Calibration

Display Calibration services & consultancy can be provided, remotely, as well as on the client site.

We can calibrate any display to any standard, under the physical limitations of the display, including:

• Home & Studio SDR Calibration: Rec709 Gamma 2.4 (or custom gamma), DCI-P3 Gamma 2.6, Rec601 Gamma 2.2 etc.
• Home & Studio HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision Calibration: Rec2020 ST2084 EOTF, DCI-P3 ST2084 EOTF (or custom primaries), Rec709 ST2084 EOTF etc.
• Other HDR Calibration: BBC HLG, Philips HDR5K, Philips HDR10K, EclairColor HDR etc.
• DCI Cinema Calibration: DCI XYZ Gamma 2.6
• Photography/Graphics Monitor Calibration: sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB etc.
• Medical/Surgical Display Calibration: Dicom, sRGB
• Office Monitor Calibration: sRGB
• Print Soft-Proofing Monitor Calibration: Printer color space
• Any Custom Calibration

We use some very sophisticated methods for complete volumetric calibration of the displays via precision color transforms. This involves generation of 3DLUTs and/or sophisticated ICC profiles. This form of calibration is much superior to the Hardware Calibration method, which involves the use of controls and settings in a display to align its color response.
Nevertheless, if it is required, we can provide Hardware Calibration services too, but that will not be done remotely.

Image Processing Services

We can provide various image/video processing services like:

• Video/Image Upscaling or Downscaling: We can use some very sophisticated neural network based algorithms to upscale or downscale videos or images. For e.g., we can do a very high quality FullHD to UHD 4K conversion.
  As Anamorphic stretch/compression is also scaling, we can do that as well in very high quality.
• Removal of Artifacts: We can remove (or significantly reduce) certain kinds of artifacts from videos or images, like presence of ringing, banding or quantization distortion, noise, compression artifacts like blockiness, pixelation, etc.
• Sharpening: We have some good sharpening algorithms too, but generally we don't recommend that any deliverable is sharpened.

Video Look Matching of Deliverables for Streaming Platforms

Studios working on deliverables for Streaming Platforms often face the problem that the mastered video after uploading on the specific streaming platform looks rather different.

Taking example of Youtube platform, it applies some unnecessary/undocumented color processing to an uploaded video thereby changing its look from the original deliverable. To address this problem, we can analyze the color differences between the original and the uploaded video and generate a difference 3DLUT. The studio will just have to process their deliverable with this 3DLUT and then upload it on Youtube. The uploaded video and the original deliverable will match then.

The content can also be routed through us, wherein we will process the deliverable with the difference 3DLUT via sophisticated processing with 32bit floating point precision.

Other Color Management Services

We also provide services related to 3DLUT/ ICC conversions and processing, which include all kinds of color space conversions as well.
Some examples:

• LUT Format/ICC Conversion: We can provide services to convert 3DLUTs or 1DLUTs to ICC profile and vice-versa. LUTs and/or ICC profiles can also be combined one LUT/ICC profile which does all.
• Difference 3DLUT from two Images: We can extract the color differences from a set of an Original image and its Processed Image, and generate a 3DLUT representing the differences. Any image or video can be processed with this 3DLUT so as to get the same processing/effect. We can even directly process your video/images with it.
• Technical Conversion 3DLUTs: We can provide Technical Conversion 3DLUTs, for e.g. to convert sRGB images to Adobe RGB, Rec709 images/videos to DCI-P3 (or DCI XYZ for DCPs). We can also directly process your images to give you the converted images without you having to bother with 3DLUTs (all the processing will be done in high floating-point precision).
• 3DLUT Modification: Modifications can be made to 3DLUTs or 1DLUTs, to change their behaviour or to use them in a specific environment. For example, a 3DLUT can be modified such that it does greyscale and white balance processing only.