Real World Color Management

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
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Summary

Graphic arts professionals know that the goal of maintaining color fidelity throughout a print or Web design project can be an elusive one. What you see on the screen might look like the sample you hold in your hand, but what about the final product? From swatch to screen, from proof to final output, the way to make sure your results match your expectations -- and those of your clients -- is through color management, and Real World Color Management is the industrial-strength, under-the-hood guide. Industry experts Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy, and Fred Bunting pack every page with tips and techniques to help you build and fine-tune ICC profiles, develop a color-managed workflow, understand the craft of converting from one color space to another, and manage color using popular graphics applications. You'll also gain insight into color theory and color models, and learn how various devices interpret, display, and reproduce color. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Bruce Fraser is an internationally known authority on digital imaging and color reproduction Chris Murphy is president of Color Remedies Fred Bunting is a writer, illustrator, and speaker on the topics of color theory, color management, and digital imaging

Table of Contents

Overview: The Big Picturep. v
Contents: What's Insidep. vii
Preface: The Color-Management Conundrump. xix
Why Did We Do This?p. xx
Why Did We Think We Could Do This?p. xxii
How the Book Is Organizedp. xxii
Thank You!p. xxiv
Introduction to Color Managementp. 1
What Is Color? Reflections on Lifep. 3
Computers and Color: Color by the Numbersp. 51
Color Management: How It Worksp. 79
All About Profiles: Describing Devicesp. 99
Building and Tuning Profilesp. 111
Measurement, Calibration, and Process Control: "The Map Is Not the Territory"p. 113
Building Display Profiles: Your Window to Colorp. 125
Building Input Profiles: Starting Out Rightp. 147
Building Output Profiles: Final Destinationsp. 161
Evaluating and Editing Profiles: Color Orienteeringp. 207
Applications and Workflowp. 257
Color-Management Workflow: Where the Rubber Meets the Roadp. 259
Color Management in the Operating System: Who Does What To Whom, When?p. 293
The Adobe Common Color Architecture: Color Management in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustratorp. 321
Color Management in Macromedia FreeHand 10: Capable But Quirkyp. 357
Color Management in CoreIDRAW 10: It Manages Everything But Its Own Filesp. 369
Color Management in QuarkXPress: Incremental Improvementsp. 381
Color Management and PDF: The Wave of the Futurep. 397
Automation and Scripting: The Smart Way To Be Lazyp. 419
Building Color-Managed Workflows: Bringing It All Togetherp. 441
Appendicesp. 467
Profile Anatomyp. 469
Workflow Templatesp. 481
Glossaryp. 491
Indexp. 513
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