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Imatest LLC is the company that produces the Imatest image quality testing software. It is run by photographer/engineer Norman Koren.

Imatest attempts to adjust images with different amounts of sharpening to a standard amount of sharpening, and to compare resulution in of those adjusted images.[1] Imatest also tests color accuracy, tone-scale linearity, image distortion, light falloff, and printing gamut.

Imatest software is used and referenced in research, art, and industry.[2][3][4]

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  1. ^ Norman Koren (2006). "The Imatest program: comparing cameras with different amounts of sharpening". Digital Photography II, Proc. of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging. 
  2. ^ V. Kaufmann and R. Ladstädter (2005). "Elimination of Color Fringes in Digital Photographs Caused by Lateral Chromatic Aberration". XXth International CIPA Symposium. 
  3. ^ Anthony James Allowatt (2005). "PhETA: An Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Quality of Digital Photographs from Edge Transitions". Master's thesis: Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 
  4. ^ Uwe Steinmueller and Juergen Gulbins (2006). Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers. Rocky Nook. ISBN 1933952008. 

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