Lindsay William Macdonald

Evaluation of colour fidelity for reproductions of fine art paintings

This paper describes the results of experiments carried out at the National Gallery in London, comparing original paintings with printed colour reproductions made by processing digital images captured by a high resolution digital camera. A pairwise comparison method was used for three paintings under several different illumination conditions with a panel of observers. The results indicate that the optimum choice of colour gamut mapping procedure depends on the pictorial content of the painting.