Chuck Gardner's Photography Class
Part Seven - Color Management
by Chuck Gardner
For more in-depth and expert information see the following web sites:

Monte Zucker's web site Learn directly from the master photographer who taught me, and Joe Zeltsman who taught Monte.

Mauro Boscarol's color management tutorial:
http://www.boscarol.com/pages/cms_eng/index.html Written by Italian color management guru Mauro Boscarol, this tutorial takes the reader from the shallow waters to color management into to the deeper depths of how ICC based application and RIP-based PostScript level 3 color management differ.

http://www.digitaldog.net/files/Calibrating%20Digital%20Cameras.pdf How to Apply Color Management to Digitally Captured Files by Andrew Rodney. Contains a good explaination of how to use the PhotoShop eyedropper tool for color correcting camera files. Also illustrates the high-end Heidelberg LinoColor D-Cam image editing application.

The ICC organization web site :
http://www.color.org There are several good papers on color management here including a case study of color management at several newspapers and an overview of various color management scenarios.

The resource links on the X-Rite web site:
http://www.xrite.com/support/linkpartners.asp X-Rite is a leading manufacturer of color measurement devices and software.

http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/color-management.html
A site which sells color measurement equipment and ICC profiles for a wide range of ink jet printer / paper combinations. You can obtain several free profiles by simply completing a survey form. It also has a good selection of educational material and tutorials at:
http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/information.html

http://www.profilecity.com/Another site offering profiles, tools, and tutorials.

http://www.picto.com/productsA.html Pictographics International Corporation. Profiling software / PhotoShop plug-in for creating camera profiles.

http://www.rmphoto.com/document_index.html Articles by Robin Meyers

Information and tutorials about ColorSync workflows can be found at:http://www.apple.com/colorsync/ ColorSync and the ColorSync logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. The Made with ColorSync Badge is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., used with permission.

Information on Adobe Postscript color management can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/support/techguides/color/colormanagement/






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