What do you call the area around the edges of post #440097? It's a set of lines that look like they're intended to help align the image and blocks of CYMK color for color calibration, I'm guessing.
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What do you call the area around the edges of post #440097? It's a set of lines that look like they're intended to help align the image and blocks of CYMK color for color calibration, I'm guessing.
BCI_Temp said:
What do you call the area around the edges of post #440097? It's a set of lines that look like they're intended to help align the image
They're called ใใณใ or ่งใใณใ in Japanese and called crop_marks or trim_marks in English.
BCI_Temp said:
... and blocks of CYMK color for color calibration, I'm guessing.
Looks like don't have a tag for it yet.
Hmm... Let's do some searches based on the terms you helpfully turned up...
Seems that crop marks and trim marks seem to be mostly interchangeable. The former has some other uses in archeology, but the latter seems free of alternate uses.
There's also printer's marks for the entire array of symbols, including the color bars, but that term also is has another image-related meaning for an old form of trademark/signature on printed works.
Color guide is an existing tag, so we'll keep that and start trim marks. Images with the latter are rare but scattered all over the place. I can't think of a good way to find and populate the tag, so I'll stick it in Tag group:Image composition and hope others pick up on it.
Thanks for the assist.
In retrospect, color guide probably isn't the right term, since that's used as a reference "palette" for digitally coloring an image, whereas the CYMK thing I was pointing to is used for image calibration.
In fact, since there's no wiki for it, and a web search is pretty fruitless, is color guide even a term of the art?
I'm thinking of naming the four blocks in post #440097 color calibration instead.
They're simply called color_bars, if I remember correctly.