Rating: 
Summary: Saves Money and Time
Review: This is a fantastic book. It has saved me a great deal of time using trial and error techniques attempting to get the color right on my older color PostScript printers. The cost savings of expensive media alone justifies this book. The time savings and lowered aggravation is icing on the cake. Thank you for writing this book.
Rating:
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.
Rating:
Summary: Long awaited and well worth the wait...
Review: Unlike the smarmy reviewer--mr. x--with his personal attack on one of the authors, reviewing the *book* is what's important. Anyone working in digital imaging has found that color management can be confusing at best and mystifying at worst. Real World Color Management continues the tradition of the wonderful Real World Photoshop books in clarifying color management issues, enlightening the reader with a realistic and practical approach. Highly recommended!
Rating:
Summary: Essential reading if digital colors are part of your craft
Review: Until I read this book, I had no idea how complex the management of color is in the digital environment. The level of detail in this book is impressive and the authors go all the way down to the most trivial of specifics. For example, they recommend that when you are finalizing your color settings, you should do so in a room with the walls the proper color and wearing the appropriate color of clothing.
The authors explain the various digital representations of color and are very honest about the reality of trying to make your colors portable. Their sections on profiles is complete, covering display, input and output profiles. The next segment of the book is how to manage the colors in the operating system, Adobe products, Macromedia Freehand 10, CorelDraw 10, QuarkXPress, and PDF files. It is all brought together in the last chapter, where all the stages in the "journey" of a pixel, from the initial capture to the final output are listed and summarized.
If color is an important component of your work, then reading this book is an absolute necessity. I strongly recommend it for web designers as well as graphics artists. It has been placed on my shelf of critical reference books.
Rating: 
Summary: Focus on colour profiles
Review: [A review of the SECOND EDITION, 2004.]
For graphics designers, the book aims to demystify how to use colouring in your work. The authors give a thorough elucidation of what they term "colour management". Starting with the basics of a source of illumination, an object being viewed, and an observer, which could be a person or instrument. Don't worry about the underlying physics. The book goes briefly through just enough for your needs. (No equations!)
The key idea is the colour profile and the Profile Connection Space. As you might expect, the colour example diagrams used to help show this idea are carefully chosen. Many chapters delve into the various profile topics. Like making input profiles, editing these and using them in your workflow.
One interesting photo, to me, was of various HAND-HELD spectrophotometers. The ones I used in the 80s were hulking giants, some 1-2m on a side, and atop sturdy lab benches. Now you can hold the latest in your hand! Wow.
The book talks about digital cameras as a common input device, as you might expect, given their popularity. Sadly, no mention of Foveon's unique camera. Which does not use CCDs, but has another innovative method with very high resolution. This camera is still new and expensive. But it may soon define the best in digital cameras.
| 
