Color management for photographers : hands on techniques for Photoshop users

Acknowledgments......Page 14
 Why This Book Was Written......Page 16
 How the Book Is Structured......Page 17
 Being a Photographer Isn’t Necessary......Page 18
 My Pipeline (Work Flow) Philosophy......Page 19
 Color Management System (CMS) and Why We Need It......Page 21
 The Pixel......Page 23
 What Is Light, What Is Color?......Page 26
 Color Models and Color Spaces......Page 30
 Device-Dependent Color Spaces......Page 32
 Device-Independent Color Spaces......Page 33
 RGB versus CMYK, and What’s the Fuss about LAB?......Page 38
 Desktop Color......Page 40
 Open Color Management Systems......Page 41
 Color Management versus Color Correction......Page 42
 Calibration versus Profiling......Page 43
 Color Gamut......Page 45
 Color Translation......Page 47
 Rendering Intents and ICC Profiles......Page 48
 Converting/Transforming and the PCS......Page 51
 Anatomy of an ICC Profile......Page 53
 Where ICC Profiles Live on Your System......Page 57
 Reasonable Expectations from Color Management......Page 59
 Photoshop before ICC Color Management......Page 62
 Photoshop’s ICC Color Architecture......Page 64
 A Divorce of the Display......Page 65
 Display Using Monitor Compensation......Page 66
 Working (Editing) Spaces also Divorce Editing from the Monitor......Page 67
 Working Spaces Up Close......Page 69
 Which Working Space?......Page 70
 Which Working Space?......Page 74
 The Bottom Line—Numbers, Previews, and Conversions Are All in Sync......Page 76
 Document Specific Color......Page 77
 Photoshop Color Settings......Page 78
 Other Color Management Commands and Options......Page 100
 Soft-Proofing......Page 105
 Working by the Numbers......Page 127
 Common Mistakes......Page 130
CHAPTER 3: Building Display Profiles......Page 132
 CRTs and LCDs......Page 133
 Calibration, Then Profiling......Page 134
 Visual Calibration......Page 138
 What to Set and What to Expect......Page 146
 Other Areas to Watch For......Page 150
 When Print and Display Don’t Match......Page 152
 Viewing Images Outside of ICC-Savvy Applications......Page 154
 Targets......Page 156
 The Scanner......Page 161
 Scanning the Target......Page 165
 Scanner Settings for Optimal Data......Page 166
 Tweaking the Profile by Tweaking the Target......Page 167
 Pipeline Considerations......Page 170
 Getting Scans from Outside Sources......Page 171
 What Products Are Available?......Page 172
CHAPTER 5: Building Camera Profiles......Page 174
 Input (Scene)-referred versus Output-referred Data......Page 176
 RAW or Rendered RGB?......Page 179
 RAW......Page 183
 Targets......Page 184
 Photographing the Targets......Page 186
 Building the Profile......Page 188
 Pipeline Considerations......Page 190
 When Camera Profiles Go Bad......Page 192
 Adobe Camera RAW and Color Management......Page 193
 What Products Are Available?......Page 195
CHAPTER 6: Building Printer/Output Profiles......Page 200
 Building Profiles—An Overview......Page 201
 Spectrophotometers, Colorimeters, Scanners, Oh My......Page 202
 Calibration and Printer Profiles......Page 210
 Linearization......Page 211
 Targets......Page 215
 Target Data and Reference Files......Page 221
 Optical Brighteners......Page 223
 Do You Need a Raster Image Processor?......Page 225
 Metamerism and the Printer Profile......Page 229
 Printing Grayscale and B&W Images......Page 230
 Building Printer Profiles: What Products Are Available?......Page 231
 Cross Rendering......Page 240
 Profile Editing......Page 243
 Profile Editors: What Products Are Available?......Page 247
 What to Expect from Profile Editors......Page 254
 Evaluating Your Hard Work......Page 258
 Why Photographers Need to Understand Prepress......Page 260
 What Should You Supply?......Page 261
 The Contract Proof......Page 263
 Profiling the Press......Page 267
 SWOP and TR001......Page 268
 CMYK and Black Generation......Page 270
 What to Do When You Can’t Target Your Output......Page 278
 Spot, Process, and Pantone Colors......Page 279
 Page Layout Applications: When and Where to Apply Color Management......Page 280
 Multicolor Profiles......Page 284
 Prepping Files for Clients and Printers......Page 286
 What to Show Your Clients......Page 288
 PDF......Page 289
 Apple’s ColorSync Utility (Mac OS X)......Page 292
 ColorSync and AppleScript (Mac OS 9/Mac OS X)......Page 302
 Image Capture......Page 304
 Chromix ColorThink......Page 305
 Monaco GamutWorks......Page 309
 ColorShop X......Page 313
 Alwan ColorPursuitTM......Page 315
 GretagMacbeth Eye-One Share......Page 319
 GretagMacbeth’s iQueue......Page 324
CHAPTER 9: Tutorials......Page 328
 Tutorial #1: Photoshop’s Color Picker and Color Model......Page 329
 Tutorial #2: Color Documents and Color Appearance......Page 333
 Tutorial #3: Rendering Intents......Page 338
 Tutorial #4: RGB Working Space......Page 341
 Tutorial #5: Color Policy......Page 348
 Tutorial #6: Assign Profile versus Convert to Profile Command......Page 354
 Tutorial #7: How to Handle Untagged Documents......Page 362
 Tutorial #8: The Photoshop Soft Proof......Page 366
 Tutorial #9: Print with Preview......Page 371
 Tutorial #10: Testing Your Display Profile......Page 384
 Tutorial #11: Using Photoshop to Build Simplified Camera Profiles......Page 391
 Tutorial #12: Making a Printer Test File......Page 395
 Tutorial #13: Evaluating Your Output Profiles......Page 407
 Tutorial #14: UCR/GCR Settings......Page 411
 Tutorial #15: Preserve Color Numbers and CMYK Files......Page 415
 Joseph Holmes......Page 420
 Greg Gorman......Page 424
 Mac Holbert......Page 429
 Mike Ornellas......Page 432
 Stephen Wilkes......Page 438
 Andrew Rodney......Page 442
Acronyms......Page 446
Glossary......Page 448
Web Sites......Page 460
Index......Page 464