Practical Colour Management v3 - eBook PDF

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3rd EDITION AS OF JANUARY 2011 - NOW ENHANCED AND EXPANDED!!!

This is the 3rd re-print of the acclaimed 'Practical Colour Management' e-book, written by UK Colour Management expert, Rob Griffith. Rob has worked in 'Colour Management' since 1999, and before that was in the graphics and printing industry - his experience is not just theoretical, it's hand-on, having been involved at the production end of the business! In this latest edition, Rob has taken feedback from previous customers to refine and expand some parts of the book, as well as writing a new appendix on 'Choosing a monitor'.

THIS IS THE E-BOOK / PDF VERSION - the full colour printed version is also available.

"Take control of your colour" - this superb 100+ page full colour e-book / PDF will show you how!

This e-book is designed to give you the information you need to colour manage your workflow, whether you are a photographer, graphic designer or a printer. Parts will be relevant to anybody using any digital colour device and parts specific to certain industries or users. It’s been written by our Technical Director Rob Griffith and reflects his long experience both in the graphics industry and in colour management in particular.

The approach, as the name suggests, is mostly practical rather than theoretical and the bulk of the book concentrates on how to apply colour management to a range of typical photographic, prepress, design and print workflows. It has a readable and approachable style and is designed to fit between the brief manuals you get with software and the weightier more theoretical specialist books on colour management.

The chapters are:

Light, Human Vision & Colour
A short introduction to the basic physics and biology of colour along with an explanation of colour measurement and colour models.

How Colour Management Works
Explaining the processes and techniques of colour management in general terms this chapter demystifies such things as rendering intents, the difference between calibration and profiling, and how computers apply colour a management.

Calibrating & Profiling Monitors
Covers everything from the differences between a hard and software calibrated monitor through to colour temperature choices and how to test a monitor profile.

Colour Management & Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is at the heart of most colour managed workflows and this is a comprehensive review of the colour management features of Photoshop covering versions form 6.0 onwards.

Profiling Scanners
How to get the best possible colour accuracy from a scanner including how to apply scanner profiles in a workflow.

Colour Managing Digital Photography
This chapter covers the three main approaches to colour managing digital photography; camera settings, RAW conversion and custom profiling. It also has sections on the colour management features of Lightroom, Aperture and Photoshop Elements.

Profiling RGB Printers
Everything you wanted to know about profiling desktop inkjet printers and dye subs.

Profiling CMYK Printers
The chapter covers profiling inkjet and toner based printers that use a RIP and includes linearisation and ink limiting.

Press Profiling & Proofing
Printing presses are the most expensive, and sometimes the most variable element in some colour workflows and this chapter covers press standards, custom profiling and proofing.

Colour Management & Graphic Applications
Building on the chapter on Photoshop’s colour management this chapter covers the rest of the Creative Suite - Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat and also Quark Xpress.

Glossary
An explanation of the many terms you’ll come across in colour management.

Appendix: Choosing a Monitor
An explanation of the many terms you’ll come across in colour management.
The PDF version of the book is free to download but obviously for the hard copy version we have to make a charge to cover the printing costs. The book is A5 in size and 94 pages long.

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