Real World Color Management,9780321267221

Real World Color Management

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780321267221
ISBN10: 0321267222
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Pub. Date: 2004-09-08
Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
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Summary

bull; Packed with expert advice for building and fine-tuning ICC profiles. bull; Includes tons of detailed information on color management workflow and the craft of color conversion. bull; A thoroughly revised section covers managing color within and across the latest versions of the major design applications.

Author Biography

Bruce Fraser is a widely recognized authority on digital imaging and color reproduction Chris Murphy is president of Color Remedies Fred Bunting is a writer, illustrator, teacher, and speaker

Table of Contents

Overview: The Big Picture v
Contents: What's Inside vii
Preface: The Color management Conundrum xix
Why Did We Do This? xx
Understanding the Big Picture xx
Sweating the Details xxi
Making It Flow xxi
Why Did We Think We Could Do This? xxii
How the Book Is Organized xxii
Thank You! xxiv
Contacts and Resources xxvi
PART I Introduction to Color Management
1(110)
What Is Color? Reflections on Life
3(48)
Where Is Color?
4(2)
Light and the Color Event
6(6)
Photons and Waves
6(1)
The Spectrum
7(2)
Spectral Curves
9(1)
Light Sources
10(1)
Illuminants
11(1)
The Object and the Color Event
12(1)
Reflection and Transmission
13(1)
The Color of White
13(3)
Fluorescence
15(1)
The Observer and the Color Event
16(17)
Trichromacy: Red, Green, Blue
16(6)
Opponency: Red-Green, Blue-Yellow
22(3)
Metamerism
25(6)
Non-Linearity: Intensity and Brightness
31(1)
Achromatic Component: Brightness
32(1)
What's a Logarithm, and Why Should I Care?
33(4)
Chromatic Components: Hue and Saturation
34(3)
Measuring Color
37(8)
We Cannot Truly Measure Color, Only Light
37(1)
Densitometry
38(2)
Colorimetry
40(4)
Spectrophotometry
44(1)
Where the Models Fail
45(5)
Color Constancy
46(2)
Psychological Factors: Color Names and Memory Colors
48(2)
Lessons for Color Management
50(1)
Computers and Color: Color by the Numbers
51(28)
Color by the Numbers
52(1)
Why CMYK?
53(3)
Analog Origins
53(3)
Pixels, Dots, and Dithers
56(3)
Digital Evolutions
57(2)
How the Numbers Work
59(4)
Why 256 Levels?
61(1)
Millions of Colors
61(2)
Color Definitions and Colors
63(1)
Why the Numbers Vary
63(4)
Colorants (Primaries)
64(1)
White Point and Black Point
65(1)
Tone Reproduction Characteristics
66(1)
Device-Specific Color Models
67(2)
Device-Independent Color Models
69(2)
CIE LAB
70(1)
LAB Limitations
71(1)
Alphabet Soup
72(1)
Mismatching---the Limits of the Possible
72(6)
Device Limitations---Gamut and Dynamic Range
72(2)
Tone and Gamut Mapping
74(4)
Color is Complex
78(1)
Color Management: How It Works
79(20)
The Genesis of Color Management
81(2)
The WYSIWYG Myth
83(1)
The Components of Color Management
83(2)
The PCS
84(1)
Profiles
84(1)
The ICC---Some Historical Perspective
85(1)
The CMM
86(1)
What Does CMM Stand For?
86(1)
Why Do We Need CMMs At All?
87(6)
Rendering Intents
88(5)
Color Management in Action
93(4)
Assigning and Embedding Profiles
93(1)
Converting with Profiles
94(2)
How Conversions Work
96(1)
Conversions and Data Loss
97(1)
The High-Bit Advantage
98(1)
Color Management Is Simple
98(1)
All About Profiles: Describing Devices
99(12)
What Are Device Profiles?
99(4)
Profile Classes
100(3)
Matrix-Based vs. Table-Based ICC Profiles
103(4)
Stimulus and Response
104(3)
Profile Limitations
107(1)
Using Profiles---Source and Destination
108(1)
Generic Profiles
108(1)
Color Space Profiles
109(1)
Good Profiles
110(1)
PART II Building and Tuning Profiles
111(158)
Measurement, Calibration, and Process Control: ``The Map Is Not the Territory''
113(12)
Keeping Track of Device Drift
114(5)
Stimulus and Response
115(1)
Controlling Variables
115(4)
Controlling Variability
119(1)
The Multiple Roles of Measurement
119(4)
Evaluating Devices
120(1)
Calibrating Devices
121(1)
Monitoring Devices
122(1)
Working Outside the System
123(2)
Building Display Profiles: Your Window to Color
125(22)
Display Calibration
126(2)
What to Adjust
127(1)
Calibration and Profiling Tools
128(1)
Muddying the Waters
129(4)
Instruments
132(1)
Choosing Calibration Settings
133(3)
Target White Point
134(1)
Target Gamma
135(1)
How Often Should I Calibrate?
136(1)
Before Calibration
136(2)
Warm-Up Time
136(1)
Resolution, Refresh, and Other Monitor Settings
137(1)
Cleaning the Screen
137(1)
Precalibration---Setting the Analog Controls
138(6)
Setting White Luminance
138(2)
Setting Black Level
140(2)
Setting the Color Temperature
142(2)
Calibration and Profiling
144(1)
Saving the Monitor Profile
144(1)
Visual Calibration
145(1)
Piece of Cake
146(1)
Building Input Profiles: Starting Out Right
147(16)
Input Profile Basics
148(5)
Input Profiling Targets
148(4)
Input Device Variables
152(1)
Building Scanner Profiles
153(4)
Stabilizing the Scanner's Response
153(1)
Optimizing the Scanner's Response
154(1)
Scanning the Target
154(2)
Building the Scanner Profile
156(1)
Building Digital Camera Profiles
157(4)
Controlling the Camera's Response
157(1)
Capturing the Target
158(1)
Building the Camera Profile
159(2)
Starting Out Right
161(2)
Building Output Profiles: Final Destinations
163(46)
The Moving Target and the Rubber Ruler
164(1)
Measuring Instruments
165(6)
Measurement Geometry
165(1)
Aperture Size
166(1)
Filters
167(1)
Backing
168(1)
Handheld Instruments
168(2)
XY Plotters
170(1)
Strip Readers
171(1)
Profiling Packages
171(2)
Instrument Support
172(1)
Profile Creation
173(9)
Targets
175(3)
Data Averaging
178(1)
Linearization
178(1)
Parameter Controls
179(3)
Profile Editing
182(1)
Getting Good Data
182(1)
Opening and Printing the Target
182(2)
Opening the Target
183(1)
Printing the Target
184(1)
Profiling RGB Inkjet Printers
184(2)
Before Profiling RGB Inkjets
185(1)
Comparing Colors
186(5)
Creating RGB Inkjet Profiles
190(1)
Profiling True RGB Printers
191(1)
Before Profiling True RGB Printers
191(1)
Creating True RGB Printer Profiles
192(1)
Profiling Three-Color Dye-Sub Printers
192(1)
Profiling Composite CMYK Printers
193(3)
Before Profiling CMYK Color Laser Printers
194(1)
Creating CMYK Color Laser Profiles
195(1)
Ink Limiting
196(1)
Before Profiling CMYK Inkjets
196(1)
Black Generation
197(3)
Creating CMYK Inkjet Profiles
198(1)
Before Profiling Solid Ink Printers
198(1)
Creating CMYK Solid Ink Printer Profiles
199(1)
Before Profiling CMYK Dye-Sublimation Printers
199(1)
Creating CMYK Dye-Sublimation Printer Profiles
200(1)
Profiling Printing Presses
200(2)
Before Profiling Presses
201(1)
Don't Profile the Press?!
202(1)
Profile the Press Once
203(1)
Optimized or Standardized Press Behavior
204(1)
Creating Profiles for Presses
204(1)
Intentionally Non-Linear
205(2)
Profiling Multichannel Printers
207(1)
Checking the Map
208(1)
Evaluating and Editing Profiles: Color Orienteering
209(60)
Judging the Map
210(1)
Viewing Environment
210(3)
Surfaces
211(1)
Lighting
212(1)
Counting Photons
213(3)
Evaluating Profiles
216(1)
Checking the Display
217(8)
Monitor Calibration
217(5)
Monitor Profile
222(3)
Input Profiles
225(1)
Measurements to Pixels and Back
225(2)
Basic Test for Input Profiles
226(1)
Objective Test for Input Profiles
226(1)
Objective Objectives
227(28)
Subjective Tests for Input Profiles
238(4)
Editing Input Profiles
242(7)
Calibrating Camera Raw
249(6)
Output Profiles
255(7)
Objective Tests for Output Profiles
256(6)
ColorThink Pro
262(4)
Subjective Tests for Output Profiles
263(1)
Editing Output Profiles
264(2)
Edit, Reprofile, or Update?
266(2)
Profiling Is Iterative
268(1)
Where Do We Go from Here?
268(1)
PART III Applications and Workflow
269(240)
Color Management Workflow: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
271(34)
What Is Color Management Workflow?
272(3)
Display Conversions
274(1)
When to Convert
275(5)
Early Binding Advantages
275(1)
Early Binding Disadvantages
276(1)
Late Binding Advantages
276(1)
Late Binding Disadvantages
276(1)
Avoiding Extremes
277(1)
Intermediate Spaces
277(3)
The Intermediate Space Advantage
280(1)
Conveying Color Meaning
280(1)
Embedded Profiles
280(1)
Premature Binding
281(1)
Terminology: Tagging, Assigning, Embedding, and Assuming
282(3)
Assumed Profiles
283(1)
Hybrid Workflows
284(1)
Workflow Within a Program
285(6)
Opening Untagged Documents
285(1)
Opening Tagged Documents
286(1)
Color Management Between Documents
287(1)
Assigning, Converting, and Soft-Proofing
288(3)
Soft-Proofing Basics
291(4)
Printing and Proofing
292(3)
Workflow Between Programs
295(1)
Workflow Into and Out of Color Management
296(5)
Bringing Color Into a Color-Managed Environment
296(1)
When Color Management Starts
297(2)
The Limits of the Knowable
299(1)
Preparing Materials for a Non-Color-Managed Print Environment
300(1)
Fear of Embedding
301(2)
Preparing Materials for the Non-Color-Managed Internet
302(1)
Internet Color Workflow
303(1)
Understanding Workflow
303(2)
Color Management in the Operating System: Who Does What to Whom, When?
305(36)
Color Management in OSs, Applications, and Drivers
306(1)
ColorSync and ICM
307(1)
What Are They? What Do They Do?
307(1)
Mac OS 9
308(3)
ColorSync Control Panel Settings
309(1)
Monitor Settings
310(1)
Mac OS X Panther (10.3.x)
311(4)
Rules of Engagement
312(2)
Displays Panel Settings
314(1)
The Generics
315(2)
Profile Locations
315(1)
Locations for CMMs
316(1)
ColorSync Utility
316(1)
QuickDraw, GDI, and Quartz
317(5)
Windows
322(1)
Setting the Active Color Profile for the Display
322(1)
Preview
323(1)
Locations for Profiles
324(1)
Color Management in Applications
324(1)
Color-Managed Applications
324(1)
CUPS
325(2)
Non-Color-Managed Applications
326(1)
Color Management in Printer Drivers
327(10)
Default Behavior
327(1)
Source Profile Assumptions
328(1)
Raster Drivers
329(5)
PostScript Drivers
334(3)
Color Management in Scanner Drivers
337(2)
East Is East, West Is West
339(2)
The Adobe Common Color Architecture: Color Management in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
341(40)
Color Settings---Command Central for Color
342(14)
Settings
343(1)
Default Profiles---Working Spaces
344(1)
Color Management Policies
344(2)
Warnings---Manual Overrides
346(8)
Advanced Options---Default Conversion Settings
354(2)
Manual Assignments and Conversions
356(4)
Assign Profile
357(1)
Convert to Profile
358(2)
Color Managing Imported Graphics
360(5)
Placed Graphics in Photoshop
360(1)
Placed Graphics in InDesign
360(2)
Placed Graphics in Illustrator
362(3)
Simulations and Soft-Proofing
365(5)
Simulations in Illustrator
365(1)
Simulations in InDesign
366(1)
Simulations in Photoshop
367(2)
Soft-Proofing Practices and Pitfalls
369(1)
Printing
370(5)
Adobe Camera Raw
375(4)
Digital Raw
375(1)
Camera Raw and Color
376(3)
The Same, But Different
379(2)
Color Management in Macromedia FreeHand 10 and 11: Capable But Quirky
381(12)
FreeHand's Color Preferences
382(5)
Color Management Types
382(2)
Kodak Digital Science and Apple ColorSync
384(3)
Manual Assignments
387(1)
Object Palette
387(1)
Exporting
388(2)
TIFF
389(1)
EPS and PDF
389(1)
Printing
390(2)
Gotchas
391(1)
Be Careful
392(1)
Color Management in CorelDRAW 10: It Manages Everything But Its Own Files
393(12)
Color Management Preferences
394(5)
Internal RGB
395(1)
Monitor
396(1)
Composite Printer
397(1)
Import/Export
397(1)
Scanner/Digital Camera
398(1)
Separations Printer
398(1)
Importing
399(1)
Manual Controls
400(1)
Exporting
401(1)
Profile Embedding
402(1)
Printing
402(2)
Strengths and Weaknesses
404(1)
Color Management in QuarkXPress: Incremental Improvements
405(18)
Turning It Off
406(1)
Turn Off QuarkXPress 3 CMS (Mac OS Only)
406(1)
Turn Off QuarkXPress 4, 5 and 6 CMS
407(1)
Built-in Color Management
407(4)
QuarkXPress 4
407(1)
QuarkXPress 5
408(2)
QuarkXPress 6
410(1)
Color Management Preferences
411(3)
Manual Controls
414(2)
Get Picture
415(1)
Profile Information
416(1)
Printing
416(3)
Hard Proofing
419(1)
Compass Pro XT
419(2)
The 800-Pound Gorilla
421(2)
Color Management and PDF: The Wave of the Future
423(34)
The Flavors of PDF
424(6)
PDF Versions
424(1)
PostScript Color Management
425(2)
PDF/X
427(3)
Distiller 5
430(8)
Compatibility
430(1)
Color Settings
431(3)
Making PDFs
434(4)
Acrobat 5
438(3)
Color Management Preferences
438(1)
Printing
439(2)
Distiller 6
441(3)
PDF/X-la, PDF/X-3
442(2)
Acrobat 6
444(4)
Color Management Preferences
444(1)
Proof Setup and Proof Colors
445(1)
Preflight
445(3)
Printing
448(1)
InDesign CS Export PDF
448(5)
PDF Export Presets
450(1)
Export PDF
451(2)
EPS, PDF, and Al Formats
453(1)
Third-Party Stuff
453(2)
Enfocus PitStop Pro
453(2)
Other Products
455(1)
The Wave of the Future
455(2)
Automation and Scripting: The Smart Way To Be Lazy
457(26)
Why Automate?
457(1)
Color Servers
458(6)
Color Server Pros
459(1)
Color Server Cons
460(1)
Examples
461(2)
Color Server Questions
463(1)
DeviceLink Profiles
464(4)
More about Links
464(1)
Why use DeviceLinks?
465(1)
Making DeviceLinks
466(1)
How to Use These Darn Things?
467(1)
Prepress Solutions
468(5)
Who Should Consider Prepress Solutions?
468(2)
The Downsides
470(1)
Examples
470(2)
Important Questions
472(1)
In-RIP Color Management
473(1)
The Good
474(1)
The Bad (and The Ugly)
474(1)
Scripting
474(8)
What Is Scripting?
475(1)
What Can Scripting Do?
475(1)
Scripting Advantages
475(1)
Scripting Disadvantages
476(1)
Scripting Examples
476(4)
Hybrid Scripting and Remote Profile Access
480(2)
The Automation Trade-Off
482(1)
Building Color-Managed Workflows: Bringing It All Together
483(26)
The Four Stages of Color Management
484(6)
Defining Color Meaning
485(1)
Normalizing Color
486(2)
Converting for Output
488(1)
Proofing
489(1)
Step-by-Step Color Management
490(1)
Determining Your Needs
490(4)
Software, File Formats, and Devices
490(1)
What Outputs Do I Need?
491(2)
Automation and Quality
493(1)
Workflow Tools
494(3)
Embedded or Assumed Profiles
494(1)
Normalization and Editing Spaces
495(2)
The Cop at the Door---Warnings
497(1)
LAB---The Great Normalizer
497(5)
Black Preservation and Device-Dependent Data
498(1)
Named-Color Systems
498(1)
Simulations and Soft Proofs
499(1)
Hard Proofs
500(1)
Output Conversions
501(1)
Final Analysis
502(1)
One Pixel's Journey
502(5)
Capture a Pixel
502(1)
Define the Color
503(1)
Normalize the Color
504(1)
Simulate the Output
504(1)
Optimize for Output
505(1)
Convert for Output
505(1)
Proof the Output
506(1)
Hand Off the Color
506(1)
The Devil Is in the Details
507(2)
PART IV Appendices
509(24)
Appendix A: Profile Anatomy
511(12)
Appendix B: Workflow Templates
523(10)
Glossary 533(22)
Index 555

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