A Field Guide to Digital Color

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Summary: A thorough, professional quality resource
Review: A Field Guide To Digital Color by computer expert Maureen C. Stone is a handy user manual to digital color on the computer, and applying digital color for maximum visual effect. From RGB and Brightness, to additive and subtractive color systems, to color image capture, reproduction, and appearance, A Field Guide To Digital Color is a thorough, professional quality resource (and includes an annotated bibliography for in-depth reference and future study) which is confidently recommended for novice and experienced digital artists seeking to master and manipulate this demanding medium.

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Summary: The Best of The Best in Technical Writing
Review: I've spent plenty of hours wading through poorly written technical material.

This book lies at the other end of the 'spectrum'. A joy to read, completely comprehensible: a thorough treatment of the subject. With each chapter, a complete bibliography regarding the whereabouts of the fundamental underlying research is provided.

I've been working with computer graphics for at least 20 years, and I learned more about color in one chapter than I had from any other graphics text I've ever encountered.

I first saw this book on display at the Apple WWDC 2002 in the conference bookstore. I put it in my Amazon wishlist by memorizing the title. It took me a year to get around to getting it, but I was glad I did.