Franz Herbert

Bio

In August of 1994 Franz Herbert founded Color Solutions. The main objective of the company was to bring color management tools to the end user. In September 1994 Color Solutions introduced ColorBlind®, the first software application that let end users profile all of their input and output devices. In the following years Color Solutions drove the color management industry with profile creation, profile editing and workflow products. In 1996 Color Solutions was awarded the prestigious Seybold award for market impact and product excellence.

From October 1999 until November 2000 Franz Herbert consulted in the color arena. In early 2000 he co-founded ProfileCity.com, the first Internet site to bring color profiling to a wider audience.

In November 2000 Franz joined ICS, later renamed to Remote Director as CTO. ICS developed color management applications for OEM and retail channels. Among the successful software applications was basICColor display and SpectraView, which was bundled by NEC with high end monitors . ICS’ main product was Remote Director, a color correct collaboration application to share images on the internet. In addition ICS was developing applications for the color & appearance marketplace including state of the art real time 3D software for the visualization of virtual products.

In 2004 Franz moved back to his home town in Austria and continued developing solutions for the color industry. He started a software consulting business - Chameleo, with basICColor input 5 being the first application for profiling digital cameras from Raw data developed in collaboration with basICColor. In November of 2014 the new ICC standard iccMAX was introduced, which allows for a complete spectral processing path. Franz sees this as the perfect framework to embed all the spectral components he developed over the years. He has now become an iccMAX evangelist trying to get other developers and companies excited about its capabilities.