Real World Color Management

, by Fraser, Bruce; Murphy, Chris; Bunting, Fred

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ISBN: 9780321267221 | 0321267222
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Copyright: 9/8/2004

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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.

Overview: The Big Picture

Contents: What's Inside

vii

Preface: The Color management Conundrum

xix

Why Did We Do This?

Understanding the Big Picture

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

(110)

What Is Color? Reflections on Life

(48)

Where Is Color?

(2)

Light and the Color Event

(6)

Photons and Waves

(1)

The Spectrum

(2)

Spectral Curves

(1)

Light Sources

(1)

Illuminants

(1)

The Object and the Color Event

(1)

Reflection and Transmission

(1)

The Color of White

(3)

Fluorescence

(1)

The Observer and the Color Event

(17)

Trichromacy: Red, Green, Blue

(6)

Opponency: Red-Green, Blue-Yellow

(3)

Metamerism

(6)

Non-Linearity: Intensity and Brightness

(1)

Achromatic Component: Brightness

(1)

What's a Logarithm, and Why Should I Care?

(4)

Chromatic Components: Hue and Saturation

(3)

Measuring Color

(8)

We Cannot Truly Measure Color, Only Light

(1)

Densitometry

(2)

Colorimetry

(4)

Spectrophotometry

(1)

Where the Models Fail

(5)

Color Constancy

(2)

Psychological Factors: Color Names and Memory Colors

(2)

Lessons for Color Management

(1)

Computers and Color: Color by the Numbers

(28)

Color by the Numbers

(1)

Why CMYK?

(3)

Analog Origins

(3)

Pixels, Dots, and Dithers

(3)

Digital Evolutions

(2)

How the Numbers Work

(4)

Why 256 Levels?

(1)

Millions of Colors

(2)

Color Definitions and Colors

(1)

Why the Numbers Vary

(4)

Colorants (Primaries)

(1)

White Point and Black Point

(1)

Tone Reproduction Characteristics

(1)

Device-Specific Color Models

(2)

Device-Independent Color Models

(2)

CIE LAB

(1)

LAB Limitations

(1)

Alphabet Soup

(1)

Mismatching---the Limits of the Possible

(6)

Device Limitations---Gamut and Dynamic Range

(2)

Tone and Gamut Mapping

(4)

Color is Complex

(1)

Color Management: How It Works

(20)

The Genesis of Color Management

(2)

The WYSIWYG Myth

(1)

The Components of Color Management

(2)

The PCS

(1)

Profiles

(1)

The ICC---Some Historical Perspective

(1)

The CMM

(1)

What Does CMM Stand For?

(1)

Why Do We Need CMMs At All?

(6)

Rendering Intents

(5)

Color Management in Action

(4)

Assigning and Embedding Profiles

(1)

Converting with Profiles

(2)

How Conversions Work

(1)

Conversions and Data Loss

(1)

The High-Bit Advantage

(1)

Color Management Is Simple

(1)

All About Profiles: Describing Devices

(12)

What Are Device Profiles?

(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)

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