The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) aims to provide a standardized, end-to-end framework for achieving accurate, predictable color reproduction across modern imaging workflows. ACES encodings and transforms are widely adopted across the industry, helping ensure consistent color from capture through post-production, delivery, and long-term archiving.
The ACES-ASWF Github organization hosts the official ACES reference transforms, documentation, and associated projects. Currently these include:
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aces is a "parent" repository used to track tagged ACES releases and to organize the modular components of ACES, which are contained in the following submodules:
- aces-core contains the maths and algorithms that are at the core of the ACES rendering transforms
- aces-amf holds the XSD schema and example files for the ACES Metadata File (AMF)
- aces-input-and-colorspaces contains color space definitions, mostly camera encodings, and the math to conversions to/from ACES2065-1
- aces-output contains a number of preset transforms set with parameters to correspond with characteristics of standard or common display configurations
- aces-look contains transforms that serve to modify the default appearance of images through an ACES pipeline
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aces-docs contains the files and code used to generate the documentation pages for ACES
- Website: https://acescentral.com
- Documentation: https://docs.acescentral.com
- Forum: https://community.acescentral.com
- Slack workspace: https://aswf.slack.com
- New users can join via http://slack.aswf.io