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Book Description

Every graphics professional worth his or her salt knows the importance of color management. No matter how much thought artist and client put into the color scheme for a given project, all of that work is for naught if you can't get your results to match your expectations. Enter Real World Color Management, Second Edition. In this thoroughly updated under-the-hood reference, authors Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy, and Fred Bunting draw on their years of professional experience to show you everything you need to know about color management. Whether your final destination is print, Web, or film, Real World Color Management, Second Edition takes the mystery out of color management, covering everything from color theory and color models to understanding how devices interpret and display color. You'll find expert advice for building and fine-tuning color profiles for input and output devices (digital cameras and scanners, displays, printers, and more), selecting the right color management workflow, and managing color within and across major design applications. Get Real World Color Management, Second Edition--and get ready to dazzle!

Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Overview: The Big Picture
  4. Contents: What’s Inside
  5. Preface: The Color Management Conundrum
  6. Part I: Introduction to Color Management
    1. 1. What Is Color?: Reflections on Life
    2. 2. Computers and Color: Color by the Numbers
    3. 3. Color Management: How It Works
    4. 4. All About Profiles: Describing Devices
  7. Part II: Building and Tuning Profiles
    1. 5. Measurement, Calibration, and Process Control: “The Map Is Not the Territory”
    2. 6. Building Display Profiles: Your Window to Color
    3. 7. Building Input Profiles: Starting Out Right
    4. 8. Building Output Profiles: Final Destinations
    5. 9. Evaluating and Editing Profiles: Color Orienteering
  8. Part III: Applications and Workflow
    1. 10. Color Management Workflow: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
    2. 11. Color Management in the Operating System: Who Does What to Whom, When?
    3. 12. The Adobe Common Color Architecture: Color Management in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
    4. 13. Color Management in Macromedia FreeHand 10 and 11: Capable but Quirky
    5. 14. Color Management in CorelDRAW 10: It Manages Everything But Its Own Files
    6. 15. Color Management in QuarkXPress: Incremental Improvements
    7. 16. Color Management and PDF: The Wave of the Future
    8. 17. Automation and Scripting: The Smart Way to Be Lazy
    9. 18. Building Color-Managed Workflows: Bringing It All Together
  9. Part IV: Appendices
    1. Appendix A. Profile Anatomy
    2. Appendix B. Workflow Templates
  10. Glossary
  11. Index
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