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Summary: an easy way to understand color management
Review: An Easy Way to understand Color Management. very suitable for newbies to understand with some color theory. They explain the color management and profile process, then tell you how to build profiles for various devices, and even tell you why color swift at difference light source.
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Summary: an easy way to understand color management
Review: An Easy Way to understand Color Management. very suitable for newbies to understand with some color theory. They explain the color management and profile process, then tell you how to build profiles for various devices, and even tell you why color swift at difference light source.
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Summary: Actually this is a great book!
Review: Contrary to the previous review (the reviewer is from the same city as one of the authors and appears to have a personal grudge) I find that Real World Color Management is the first real book of it's kind. In reading through the book, it covers everything that an imaging professional needs to know-but could never get in one book anywhere before. The writing is crisp and entertaining for such a dry topic. But the book's real strength is the information contained within. There has never before been a single source for this information outside of color science text books-which are written for color scientists, not digital imaging practitioners. Whether you're a digital photographer, a designer or a pre-press pro, this is the best source for useful information about color management. This book is a great resource and well worth the read.
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Summary: A Must for Serious Graphic Designers
Review: Ever wonder how to make your prints match what you actually see on screen? This book not only explains how to do it, but why it's never going to be absolutely perfect. With reviews of modern calibration equiptment and profile adjustment for every design program from Photoshop to QuarkXPress, this is exactly the tool you need to bring your CRT monitor to life.
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Summary: The definitive book on color management
Review: For me, reviewing a book on color management is not a whole lot different that reviewing one on brain surgery. My perspective is not from one well versed in the subject but rather from your run-of-the-mill graphic artist with a smattering of understanding of the subject. That's a caveat that needs to be stated in this case. Can't say for sure whether the information imparted is accurate, current, etc., ... but it sure looks good. Those of us who work with color in a variety of media have to understand how color information is transmitted to and from the monitor. Color management is the means by which consistency is achieved from device to device. It's not a subject we left brain types wade through easily but if we don't get a handle on it, sooner or later it will come back to haunt us. Real World Color Management is a comprehensive study on color, from how our eyes and brains perceive it to how it's controlled. The subject matter requires pretty intense concentration to get through, but the effort is justified. The authors understand that a good portion of their market may be technically challenged and do an admirable job of gently easing us into the complexities of color science. The primary focus of the book is on profiles: the means by which color information is communicated between various devices. There are input profiles for scanners and digital cameras, display profiles for monitors and LCDs, and output profiles for printers and presses. If you read all that's available in the seven or eight chapters devoted to the subject, you'll know more about profiles than normal people should, as the authors admit. I found this to be quite true; at times, there's just too much information for anyone but the most ambitious color fanatic. The book goes on to describe how color is treated and managed from documents as they are imported or exported from application to application and how the Mac and Windows operating systems provide appropriate services (ColorSync and ICM) for management of color. Real World Color Management continues with descriptions of some of the more important applications that deal with our artwork (from, for example, Adobe, Macromedia, and Quark). It's not a fun read. The subject matter is difficult at times but the authors do a great job of explaining it if you're willing to stick with them. They even inject occasional humor to lighten the load. These three experts come across as a bunch of good guys who really know their trade well. Real World Color Management will give you a greater appreciation of all that must happen for color to be properly transmitted from one device to another. We might be able to sneak by without such comprehension, but if we aspire to be knowledgeable professionals in this business, here's a book that should be on our mandatory reading list. MacMice Rating: 4 out of 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wynne Stevens
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Summary: This books packs a lot of information into one neat package
Review: I've been actively reading on color and color management for a while now and I can tell that this book by Bruce, Chris and Fred is very authoritative and well written -- while being accessible technically. It encompasses about all of the important aspects of color and color management these days, it even gives lot's of OSX and Windows concrete examples with nice, sharp screen grabs. So much that anyone picking up a copy of this book and who's willing to spend a little bit of time reading, will be abundantly rewarded. Perfect for photographers, designers and prepress folks who want to keep abreast with the technology or want to explore the breadth of thie new fascinating concept. If you want to demystified modern digital color in Adobe's application (and Quark too) and get a feel for what a profiling application is and does, this is an excellent place to start. Even though I feel I am familiar with a lot of the notions these guys cover in their book, I know I am learning invaluable information by reading RWCM. It is time well spent. Congratulation guys on this monumental effort!
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Summary: The definitive book on color management
Review: Real World Color Management addresses the all too familiar lament: "My inkjet prints photos that do not reflect what's on my screen." Color management always seemed like an arcane science. While Colorsync is in its 4th iteration, we have yet to see some sort of a definitive manual from Apple. Real World Color Management puts all these to rest. It's not a color book for color scientists. This is a book for people who are interested in how color interacts between what they see through their digital cameras, what they on their screens, what comes out of their printers. There are sections that cover profiling devices, the software and hardware used to profile, how color management is implemented in the Macintosh and in Windows systems, and in the most popular graphics applications (Adobe, Macromedia, Corel). There has been a gaping silence from Apple, from Microsoft, from Epson (and other printer manufacturers) on how to use color management, on how to get good color from input device to output device. This book addresses that. This book answers most of the questions I had on color management. Color management is no longer a mysterious black box in which you see the input and output but in which you have practically no idea what happens in between. This is the definitive book on color management.
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Summary: The Gospel on Color Management
Review: These "Three Amigos"(Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting) of color management, are the "desciples" of where color management is going. If you need color management(not everyone does)in your workflow, this is the book to get. From Photoshop to Quark, these "desciples of color management" cover it. They explain how we precieve color, not only from our eyes, but to our color monitors(display colors) to output devices(print colors). Whether it's for inkjet,cmyk or rgb output. This book explains how to build,evaluate and edit profiles. Even if you don't own(or don't want too) profiling software this book can be used to understand how color profiles(profiles in image-editing programs) can(and how)be used for color management systems and programs..... They explain the procedure of using color management for image-editing programs and operating systems.
Their is a difference between "custom" and "canned" profiles(of course)and they explain the pros and cons of each. The book is written for getting the best out of using a color managed workflow. Whether you understand color management or not. This book will lead you to a better understanding of this subject. John Opitz Photograpker
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Summary: Everyone will benefit from this book.
Review: This book is an excellent tool for anyone seeking predictable color from their workflows and devices. It explains much about the human experience of seeing color and is candid about the shortcomings of the technology's attempts at adapting to the experience. It doesn't oversell or undersell the technology. It will be an excellent asset to any fellow color geeks, and a wake up call for anyone who expects color management to be like falling off a log. The technical detail is very sufficient to pull off a successful, color managed workflow!
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Summary: FINALLY - An Easy to Understand Color Management Book
Review: This is the most thorough, and easy-to-understand book on color management that I've ever seen. They start with some color theory, but don't bog down on the technical, like some other books I've seen. They explain the color management and profile process, then tell you how to build profiles for various devices. They spend six (!) chapters on building and editing profiles. There are separate chapters for measurement & calibration, displays, input devices, output devices, etc. As an example, they cover the steps and procedures to profile RGB inkjet printers, CMYK inkjets, CMYK color lasers, CMYK solid inks, Dye-sub printers, and much more. That process has always seemed like a bunch of mumbojumbo to me, but I found their explanations to be easy to follow. They explain the need for the right lighting in the room where you proof and print and how color shifts can occur. Then, they deal with applications and workflow. Chapter twelve covers the Adobe Color architecture. subsequent chapters deal with separate apps like Freehand, Corel Draw, QuarkXPress and PDF. They explain Colorsync and ICM color management systems. And there is a nice discussion about WHEN in the process to convert the color profile of an image. The appendices have some very useful info on profiles and workflows. It's a bit pricey, but if you NEED color management, it is worth it.
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