Synopses & Reviews
"
Color Confidence is one book that no photographer,especially me, can afford to be without!"Art Morris, Photographer(www.birdsasart.com)
Establishing a successful color management workflowthat produces predictable results is an important -- yet tricky -- undertaking.Most photographers are all too familiar with the frustration of a print notmatching the image on the monitor. In Color Confidence: The DigitalPhotographer's Guide to Color Management, digital imaging expert Tim Greyoffers immediate access to the crucial information you need to get the color youwant, every time.
Color Confidence is a results-oriented guide tomanaging color effectively across all devices. In his approachable style, TimGrey demystifies the complicated topics and leads you step-by-step through eachcomponent of a color-managed workflow. Designed for busy photographers, thisfull-color guide cuts through the theory, focusing on the practical informationyou need to make the best color decisions from capture tooutput.
Inside, you'll discover the ins and outs of color management,including how to:
- Choose, calibrate, and profile yourmonitor and scanner
- Configure Photoshop color settings
- Manage digitalcamera color with presets and custom profiles
- Evaluate images and makeaccurate color adjustments
- Color-adjust black-and-white images
- Buildcustom printer profiles or utilize generic ones
- Prepare and adjust images forprint with soft proofing and the gamut warning
- Evaluate prints againststandard targets
- Figure out what to do when prints don’tmatch
- Produce color-accurate images for the web, e-mail, and digitalslideshows
- Get familiar with process-specific workflows: (scan to print,digital capture to print, CMYK output, Web, e-mail, and digital projection)
- And more!
Review
"...a must-have for the successful imageer..." (Advanced Photoshop,July 2006)
Synopsis
"Color Confidence is one book that no photographer, especially me, can afford to be without!"
Art Morris, Photographer (www.birdsasart.com)
Establishing a successful color management workflow that produces predictable results is an important -- yet tricky -- undertaking. Most photographers are all too familiar with the frustration of a print not matching the image on the monitor. In Color Confidence, digital imaging expert Tim Grey provides the crucial information you need to get the color you want, every time.
His results-oriented guide shows you how to manage color effectively across all devices. He demystifies complicated topics and takes you through each component of a color-managed workflow step-by-step.
Designed for busy photographers, this full-color guide cuts through the theory, focusing on the practical information you need to make the best color decisions from capture to output.
Synopsis
Color Confidence: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Color Management is a practical, results-oriented book that gives photographers the knowledge they need to manage color effectively from capture to output. Digital imaging expert Tim Grey designed this book for busy photographers who want to get results without wading through tons of information about color science. Instead he focuses on the concepts photographers must know to understand how color management works, and on the practical information they need to make the best decisions when working with their images.
Synopsis
"Color Confidence is one book that no photographer, especially me, can afford to be without!"
Art Morris, Photographer (www.birdsasart.com)
Establishing a successful color management workflow that produces predictable results is an important -- yet tricky -- undertaking. Most photographers are all too familiar with the frustration of a print not matching the image on the monitor. In Color Confidence, digital imaging expert Tim Grey provides the crucial information you need to get the color you want, every time.
His results-oriented guide shows you how to manage color effectively across all devices. He demystifies complicated topics and takes you through each component of a color-managed workflow step-by-step.
Designed for busy photographers, this full-color guide cuts through the theory, focusing on the practical information you need to make the best color decisions from capture to output.
Synopsis
Designed for busy photographers, this full-color guide cuts through the theory, focusing on the practical information you need to make the best color decisions from capture to output.
Synopsis
"
Color Confidenceis one book that no photographer, especially me, can afford to be without!"
—Art Morris, Photographer www.birdsasart.com
Now includes RIPs and the latest calibrators!
Managing color photography in the digital age is tricky. Is it possible to get predictable color without bogging down in technology?
In this new edition of the very first practical guide to color management, digital imaging expert Tim Grey gives a resounding "yes" and provides the crucial information you need to get the color you want, every time. Clearly explaining color management workflow, he distills the process for the real world—from capture to output.
You'll find out how to quickly get predictable color results across all devices—from cameras, monitors, and printers, to scanners and raster image processors (RIPs). Updated with new information on Photoshop®, RIP technology, and calibration, this results-oriented book is a must for all serious photographers.
Inside, you'll discover how to:
- Calibrate your monitor quickly and accurately
- Configure Color Settings in Photoshop for the output you need
- Scan for best results, starting with choosing the right scanner
- Use a RIP for faster quality printing
- Select the proper color working space—RGB, CMYK, spot color, or others
- Manage your digital camera capture with presets and custom profiles
- Adjust color levels, curves, and hue
- Solve the magenta problem and other saturation issues
- Set up custom, canned, or generic printer profiles
- Produce color-accurate images for printers, the Web, e-mail, and slideshows
- Understand color workflows—Scan-to-Print, Digital Camera-to-Print, and more
About the Author
Tim Grey is an instructor at the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging and editor of The Digital Image. He regularly contributes articles to Outdoor Photographer, PC Photo, Digital PHOTO PRO, MSN Photos, and many more print and online publications. He publishes a daily e-mail list, ?Digital Darkroom Questions? (DDQ) in which he answers questions from enthusiasts and pros about the digital darkroom.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Chapter 1: Foundationsprovides a foundation in color theory that will help you better understand color, how it is produced, and how color management works.
Chapter 2: Photoshop Setuphelps you configure Photoshop properly and shows you what the various dialog boxes and warning messages mean.
Chapter 3: Displayguides you through the process of selecting an appropriate monitor, as well as the process of calibrating and profiling that monitor.
Chapter 4: Scanningshows you the features to look for in a film scanner and demonstrates how to produce the best scans possible, including the use of custom scanner profiles.
Chapter 5: Digital Capturedetails the various options available for producing the most accurate color in your digital captures.
Chapter 6: Optimizationoffers techniques for getting the best color in your images using Photoshop, so that you can produce exactly the colors you are trying to achieve in your images.
Chapter 7: Outputdemonstrates the methods available to produce prints that match your monitor, the “Holy Grail” of color management.
Chapter 8: Workflowputs all the color management pieces together, providing a summary of the basic process involved in putting color management to work for you.