Light Illusion Software Operation
User guides for Light Illusion software operation, including ColourSpace, SpaceMan, SpaceMatch, MatchLight, and LightDensity.
The guides found here are for standard Features, Functions & Operation within Light Illusion software.
User Guides
ColourSpace Intro.
Overview of ColourSpace operation
ColourSpace Intro.
ColourSpace overview, display calibration software, colour management system, license levels INF XPT PRO CAL LTE HTX HTP HTL DPS ZRO, 3D interactive graphs dE colour coding, native 10243 LUT size, multi-threading, foreign language support, professional display calibration
ColourSpace User Manual
Interactive ColourSpace User Guide
ColourSpace User Manual
ColourSpace interactive manual, Manage Spaces library, Profiling window Settings Characterisation Manual Measure, CIE EOTF RGB Balance RGB Separation dE graphs, Probe Options Hardware Options, Graph Options Custom Filters, Cube and Body Centre Cube profiling, Stabilisation Pre-roll Drift Compensation, Point Adjust, Workflows and Layouts
3D LUT Calibration
ColourSpace 3D LUT Calibration
3D LUT Calibration
4-step 3D LUT calibration process, pre-calibration display setup, disabling TV picture modes and CMS controls, black white level clipping, Peak Chroma LUT generation, Active LUT vs LUT Upload verification, Body Centre Cube profiling, self-verification native gamut
Manual Calibration
ColourSpace Manual Calibration
Manual Calibration
6-step manual TV calibration process, Picture Mode Backlight Contrast Brightness controls, ColourSpace ZRO and DPS license, multi-point white balance CMS adjustment, control point alignment zig-zag patch test, Ted's LightSpace Calibration Disc DIP mode
ColourSpace ZRO & DPS
ColourSpace ZRO & DPS Calibration
ColourSpace ZRO & DPS
ColourSpace ZRO free entry-level calibration, DPS manual calibration with 3D graphs, i1Display Pro i1D3 recommended probe, avoid Datacolor Spyder probes, PGenerator TPG, Presets .csv patch list workflow, 256 patch limit per preset list
ACES Tools
Working with ACES within ColourSpace
ACES Tools
ACES CTL IDT RRT ODT conversion to LUTs, CTL_MODULE_PATH environment variable, ACES v1.3.1 supported not v2, LMT Look Modification Transform generation, ACES CLF CTF import export, alphabetical ctl file ordering
Active LUT
Active LUT function
Active LUT
Active LUT verification before upload, pre-processes calibration patches through LUT, verifying LUT accuracy before monitor or LUT Box upload, bit depth signal path setting
ARRI Looks
ARRI Look Operation
ARRI Looks
ARRI Look .aml export from 3D LUT, ARRI Look Saturation Printer Lights CDL controls, ARRI Look to LUT import concatenation, extraction accuracy percentage, ALEXA on-set look workflow
Calibration Client
Java App Calibration Client TPG
Calibration Client
Java App Calibration Client TPG for Mac Linux, CalibrationClient.jar network install, Network Server Hardware Options connection, 8-bit operation only, facility wide network calibration, closed loop profiling over network
Calibration Reports
ColourSpace Calibration Reports
Calibration Reports
before and after report templates, report Tokens and Markup Language, portrait and landscape report layouts, up to 9 profiles in a single report with higher licenses, custom company logo report design
Camera LUTs
Camera Technical & Look LUT Generation
Camera LUTs
Video Encode colour space for aesthetic Look LUTs, technical vs creative camera LUT generation, HLG 12x over-range and PQ ST2084 50x over-range camera mapping, Peak Luminance Mapping Tone Mapping Push Pull Exposure, ARRI LogC negative black lift correction
Characterisation Profiling
Defining the best Characterisation
Characterisation Profiling
Cube Based vs Body Centre Cube Based profiling, Grey Axis Size independent patch count, tube patch sets for grey scale accuracy, isolating grey scale from neighbouring patches, large characterisation heat drift risk, user .csv characterisation patch sets
Custom Filters
Using Custom Filters
Custom Filters
Custom Filter formula syntax GREY PRI SEC OTHERS IN_TG tokens, dE 2000 dE ITP filter constants, isolating memory colours and gamut edge points, WOLED near-black filter example, using ChatGPT to generate filter formulas, reduced gamut mathematical filter
DIP Mode
Display Independent Profiling
DIP Mode
profiling via video playback without direct TPG control, Ted's Calibration Disc DVD Blu-ray sync, VLC and Resolve timeline patch playback, Mac colour management workaround, time-per-patch sync duration, Export Patches EDL generation
Extra Delay
Managing signal path delays
Extra Delay
probe measures before patch fully displayed, WOLED colour memory settling time, FALD backlight dimming fluctuation, Auto Extra Delay probe setting, signal path timing delay compensation
Foreign Languages
Inbuilt & User Defined Foreign Languages
Foreign Languages
19 built-in languages Danish German Greek English Spanish French Korean Italian Dutch Hungarian Japanese Polish Portuguese Finnish Swedish Vietnamese Thai Chinese Simplified Traditional, user generated Source and Destination language file, technical terms not translated
Gamut Mapping
Understanding Gamut Mapping
Gamut Mapping
gamut edge clipping when display smaller than target colour space, Gamut Mapping Full option, RGB channel clip inaccurate output colour, gamut primary coverage vs full gamut calibration, gamut edge tracking tangent lines
Hint, Drift, & Augment
Using Hint, Drift, & Augment
Hint, Drift, & Augment
Hint uses full volumetric profile to enhance sparse profile, Drift patch tracking during Characterisation, Augment Data grey scale replacement workflow, Add Aug library option, why Augment cannot make results worse, drift compensation last resort
Image Sequence Probe
Profile generation from Image Sequences
Image Sequence Probe
camera as virtual probe from image sequences, Brompton Tessera Megapixel HELIOS LED wall calibration, film profiling via telecine scanner, camera matching LUT via pixel sniffer, OETF Min Max Luminance settings, printf sequence numbering %04d
LUT Generation
Understanding LUT Generation options
LUT Generation
Peak Chroma vs Peak Luma vs Fit Space vs Map Space vs Hybrid LUT algorithms, Source and Destination colour space selection, Limit Luminance for PQ HDR clipping, Gamut Mapping Full vs Clip vs Disabled, Out of Gamut Warning LUT, colourSpaceCustomRanges.csv custom range file, Gamut Coverage percentage after generation
LUT Generation Size
Using Large LUT sizes with ColourSpace
LUT Generation Size
native LUT size 1024 cubed and beyond, Nyquist over-sampling benefit when downsampling, small vs large LUT generation size comparison, ColourSpace vs Calman 33 cubed internal cap, 1D LUT before or after 3D LUT hardware workflow, Preferences LUT Generation Size setting
LUT Image
LUT Ripping, and LUT Image based Correction & Manipulation
LUT Image
HALD LUT image export for Photoshop manipulation, LUT Ripping workflow with Null LUT, pre-correcting YouTube Vimeo codec colour shifts, LUT Image Layer Reveal mixing two LUTs, 35937 LUT points in coloured columns, .tif LUT image round trip
LUT Scale
LUT Video Scale
LUT Scale
full-range cube LUT box vs TV Legal signal path mismatch, Video Scale function to match LUT to signal path, symptoms of incorrect LUT scale larger than target gamut, grey scale errors from unscaled LUT, verifying against Active LUT after scaling
Maths Equations
LUT Adjustment via Maths Equations
Maths Equations
ARRI LogC EI800 to linear formula, Linear to sRGB and Rec709 gamma encoding formula, Linear to Cineon Log formula, ternary if-then-else LUT syntax, Append Prepend LUT operation, per-channel RGB maths equations
Multithreading
ColourSpace Multithreading capabilities
Multithreading
Environment Variable CPU thread count for LUT Generation, simultaneous multiple LUT generation windows, Invert Split 1D+3D Subtract slow operations, all CPU cores locking PC during processing, multi-core LUT Adjustment tools
Network Server
Network Server TPG
Network Server
Light Illusion open Network Protocol, CalibMate LightSpace Connect PGenerator Dogegen integration, Calibration Client Java App 8-bit limit, Hardware Options Network Server connect, IP address and Port setup
Parametric EOTF
Working with Parametric EOTF within ColourSpace
Parametric EOTF
.bcs colour space file editing for parametric points, LG WOLED near black lift fix, ig og differential point values, minimum 3 points monotonically increasing, Extended range 1.09 peak extrapolation, custom non-power-law EOTF
Point Adjust
Using the Point Adjust feature
Point Adjust
Double Left Click point selection floating values window, yellow Tangent Line deviation indicator, Apply and Reset buttons after point move, CIE EOTF RGB Balance Drift graph point editing, 1D LUT graph point adjust after generation, probe matching disables point adjust
Point Info.
Using the Point Info window
Point Info
Selected Displayed All point list options, Export selection csv and Save selection new profile, removing bad probe readings via dE filter, deleting points with long tangent lines, Quick Profile tag editing via Notepad, Index sort toggle
Patch Scale & Resolution
Patch Scale range and Resolution bit depth
Patch Scale & Resolution
Full Legal Extended patch scale range settings, Resolution bit depth 8 10 12-bit, 109% super white extended range for post-production, Limit Range for PQ HDR absolute calibration, Manual Measure slider range limits, TPG bit depth mismatch causes
Probe Matching
Calibrating a colourimeter to a Spectrometer
Probe Matching
FCVM FCMM MPVM probe matching methods, unique post-profiling application in ColourSpace, RGBW 242 8-bit Full Range patch values, tristimulus to spectroradiometer matching, Extract BPD Multi-Point Volumetric Matching, WOLED probe matching accuracy
Quick Profiling
Using Quick Profiles
Quick Profiling
Grey Ramp RGB RGBCMY+ Gamut Sweep Memory Colours presets, Multi-Primary Colour Engine for WOLED LG TVs, permuted cube size up to 101, RGB Separation graph linearity indicator, + profiles vs volumetric Cube profiles
Remote Control
ColourSpace Remote Protocols
Remote Control
Master and Servant multiple Profiling Windows, Secondary Execution for 3rd party processing, Measurement Log csv logging, Network Protocol for external TPG systems, Local Remote Average measurement source, C++ Integration Protocol source code example
Sub-Space
Targeting different colour spaces
Sub-Space
verify sRGB coverage while calibrated to DCI P3 example, Sub-Space Calibration vs plain Sub-Space, JVC projector fixed Rec2020 gamut workaround, Extract Space from profile for reduced gamut target, Peak Chroma Peak Luma only LUT generation restriction
User Patch Sets
User defined .csv patch sets
User Patch Sets
# Bitdepth and Range header parameters in csv, Red Tint mismatch warning, 5th column patch name for Manual Measure hover tip, old patch set header update prompt, unsorted vs sequential Quick Profile patch ordering
Virtual Probe
Operation of the Virtual probe
Virtual Probe
building absolute technical profiles without a physical probe, generating User Patch Sets from scratch, testing and comparing patch sets via Active LUT, assessing Reduced Gamut and Focused patch sets, OETF Min Max Luminance settings
Zoom & Bars Widgets
Using the Zoom & Bars Widgets
Zoom & Bars Widgets
Chroma Only mode removes luminance from RGB bars, HSL mode hue and saturation error bars, dE chequered bar and luma bar, CIE xy uv zoom orientation follows last graph used, auto zoom resolution scaling during Manual Measure
LightDensity
LightDensity User Manual
LightDensity
film negative and print density to XYZ profile conversion, 310T and SpecTD densitometer support, Code Values Recorder StatusM Print StatusA tabs, film emulation and creative Look LUT generation, space delimited txt density data format
MatchLight
MatchLight User Manual
MatchLight
automated LUT generation from before after image pairs, .mlc MatchLight cube export format, Pixel Box Border Trim Reject extraction controls, Freeform-clip Freeform Uniform cube extraction modes, image sequence F-L;P;I naming convention, DPX Cineon TIFF EXR support, ACES IDT camera matching
SpaceMan
SpaceMan User Manual
SpaceMan
convert 3D LUT to ICC profile for Photoshop, Input+BToA Tag vs Display class profile, VCGT tag graphics card grey scale, XYZ PCS colour space, Windows Colour Management setup, Look Management film emulation ICC workflow
SpaceMatch
SpaceMatch User Manual
SpaceMatch
graphics card VCGT LUT loading, avoiding ICC profile issues, command line mode spacematch.exe -l -r -d, Task Scheduler startup LUT load, disabling Windows Colour Management conflicts, multi-display VCGT read and apply