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Summary: Excellent Book and I'll Use My Own Name!
Review: A fine book both for the neophyte and for a seasoned professional with gaps in his/her knowledge. Maybe you've cobbled together a working color management system, but always wondered why and how it worked: this is the book for you. It certainly served that purpose for me. Sound in both its foundations and particulars. The credentials of the authors are beyond reproach, in spite of what anonymous reviewers with personal vendettas bent on character assassination might say.
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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: Essential Reading!
Review: Bruce Fraser has finally put down in writing, all in one place, the myriad aspects of color management; combined with his perspective on what is really essential to know and implement. Essential reading for all photographers working in a digital environment!
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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: A must have reference!
Review: First, I have no idea who William X is but his review is a slam to Mr. Murphy and just useless dribble. I know Chris lives in Bolder so I have to assume this is a person with some kind of agenda towards Chris. Now onto the book. I am a color geek myself although I try not to get into all the discussions like how many ICC Profiles will fit on a pin. I have purchased nearly every book on the subject of color, color theory and color management. I have been reading Frasers, Buntin and Murphy's posts on the Apple ColorSync list for years and have literally hundreds of posts from each archived. Real World Color Management is the best book on the subject bar none. It's VERY easy to read and well explained. Even the first few chapters on color theory are so well explained that I not only picked up some good concepts I didn't know, I learned how to explain them to others in a much more concise manner. For those that feel that color management and computer imaging are moving at such a pace that no book can be useful for any length of time, I would say that RWCM is worth the price of admission just for the foundation in color and computer theory it presents in the first 100 or so pages. There is a huge wealth of information that I've never seen anywhere else! The areas in the book discussing how to evaluate the quality of ICC profiles is worth it's weight in gold. The various chapters covering specific software products and how they deal with color management is invaluable. What makes this book so wonderful is it's tone. It has a sense of humor (so needed with this kind of topic). It doesn't look down on the reader and more importantly, it's clear and to the point. There's virtually no math to make your head explode. I happen to know all three authors (some more than others) and I am proud that they have finally achieved the final goal of producing what I believe is the definitive book on the subject of color management. Anyone that works with computer graphics or produces output from a computer should have this book.
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Summary: Wynne Stevens Book review
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: Color Management Help Finally Arrives!
Review: I received this book from Amazon a couple of days ago and have spent the best part of the last two days reading it from cover to cover. It is on a par with the other books in the "Real World" series, and has a wealth of practical info on the ins and outs of color management. If you're not in the upper 90th percentile of the color management guru ranks, you'll get a lot out of this book; if you are new to the subject, this is a must! My only quibble is that I want more! I wish the authors had spent more time on scanner-based output profiling, since there has been so much of that going around, and I wish the authors had discussed the pros and cons of custom profiles. The so-called review by "William X." simpy is a personal attack, for unknown reasons, on one of the authors, and should be ignored. I am somewhat disappointed that Amazon would display this type of thing, but perhaps there is no human screening of reviews.
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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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