- Paperback: 476 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; Pap/Cdr edition (19 Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0240806492
- ISBN-13: 978-0240806495
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 18.9 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"Colour management is a difficult subject to explain, and even harder to implement, but this book is one of the best I've seen on the subject...if you're determined to operate a fully managed workflow, this tome is essential." - What Digital Camera "Color Management for Photographers includes all the information you will need to make sure your colour profiles are accurate...(it) will be perfect for professional imageers who want precise, technical information. This book shows you how to create desired results, with easy step-by-steps guaranteed to help you produce successful print material." - Advanced Photoshop, April 2006 "If you want to know more about the sometimes-complex world of managing color in digital imaging, this book is a good place to turn." - Photo Techniques "This is an ideal book for those working in virtually all areas of photography and prepress and publishing who have to deal with color management on a daily basis. There is a lot of color theory in this book but there is more practical hands on knowledge of color management in Photoshop . It is complete reference of color management." - DigitalMediaDesigner.com "Rodney de-mystifies colour management in an interesting, entertaining and encouraging way...more in-depth, complicated subjects are dealt with as painlessly as possible, and distilled with a bit of humour to help users of every level tackle colour management." - Digital Photographer "Author Andrew Rodney has done an excellent job in tackling this slippery subject, and although text heavy, effort has been made to ensure everything is explained as clearly as possible...All in all, a very helpful title." - Photoshop Creative "Rodney starts out explaining the basics of colour management and colour theory, but very quickly moves on to Photoshop workflows and ChromiX profile checking...The last chapters in the book contain tutorials on what has been covered before. This makes the book valuable in two "directions": you could use it as a tutorial, but it is also a reference work that should be kept within reach." - IT-Enquirer "If you're really serious about color management, require presice color reproduction, and are willing to spend money to do things right, here's your starting point...If you've already committed to one suite or another, you'll still find this an incredibly valuable book as you work toward perfect color. This book should be reserved for color perfectionists." - Photoshop User, June 2006
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"Color Management for Photographers: Hands on Techniques for Photoshop Users", by Andrew Rodney, addresses the difficult subject of color management in a way that can help you get real work accomplished. This is the first book that moves beyond esoteric color management theory and detailed explanations of how things work to explain how to achieve a desired effect with step-by-step instructions so you can get on with creating and printing successful images. Complete with what-button-to-push-when explanations, this guide will help you navigate color management and further solidify comprehension of techniques with self-paced tutorials that enable you to practice what Rodney preaches. This practical, learn by doing approach is enhanced by the accompanying CD-ROM which includes sample files for practice as well as tutorials and software. Written with the photographer in mind, this book is also a great hands-on guide for graphic designers, those in prepress/print and, more generally, the majority of people who feel color management is too difficult. This book will help to explain this difficult concept in terms you can understand so that you may control and enhance your photographic vision. It covers CS2! It distills theory and concentrates on the tools at hand to get the job done. A CD-ROM with tutorials and software helps you better understand the concepts and teach you how to use Photoshop and its CMS features correctly. It also provides the working professional with a resource in the critically important area of printing and prepress.
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Many new and intermediate photographers will likely have some inkling that there is something dreadfully wrong with their work-flow, and not necessarily ever figure out what it is. Why does that photo look different on the laptop? What happened to that shade of green? Why does the print not look anything like the screen version?
The missing ingredient is colour management, and this book is a capable resource for learning all about it. It is one of those rare books which provides lots of information, some of it very technical, but does so in a way which retains accessibility.
Rodney starts with an explanation of why colour management is necessary, how it first came to be available in image editing software, and how the current model developed from those clumsy beginnings. He provides screen shots and charts which explain the points well, and the book includes a CD with tutorials and demonstration images. He goes on to introduce and explain an end-to-end colour management process which will suit virtually all digital photographers, then ends with a series of tutorials which demonstrate the principles explained throughout the book.
There are some problems. Minor irritations such as typos and incorrect words abound, and one irritation is that figures referred to in the text are often on the next page. The book is also slightly out of date, referring to Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS2 throughout. If you don't use Photoshop, this book will still explain the principles but you will not be able to follow along with it very easily using your alternative image editor.
If you work with digital photographs (or indeed any kind of digital images) in Photoshop, and you have heard words like "colour profile" and "calibration" before without venturing to find out what they mean, you will benefit from buying this book.
The missing ingredient is colour management, and this book is a capable resource for learning all about it. It is one of those rare books which provides lots of information, some of it very technical, but does so in a way which retains accessibility.
Rodney starts with an explanation of why colour management is necessary, how it first came to be available in image editing software, and how the current model developed from those clumsy beginnings. He provides screen shots and charts which explain the points well, and the book includes a CD with tutorials and demonstration images. He goes on to introduce and explain an end-to-end colour management process which will suit virtually all digital photographers, then ends with a series of tutorials which demonstrate the principles explained throughout the book.
There are some problems. Minor irritations such as typos and incorrect words abound, and one irritation is that figures referred to in the text are often on the next page. The book is also slightly out of date, referring to Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS2 throughout. If you don't use Photoshop, this book will still explain the principles but you will not be able to follow along with it very easily using your alternative image editor.
If you work with digital photographs (or indeed any kind of digital images) in Photoshop, and you have heard words like "colour profile" and "calibration" before without venturing to find out what they mean, you will benefit from buying this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Probably a book mainly for geeks, but I found this the first, readable explanation of colour management that I had come across, and very comprehensive. Recommended if you really want to understand the subject. Unless it has been updated since my edition (2005) some of the software and hardware references may be a little dated, but the theory is still all there.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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At last I now understand! Eureka a great book does what it says on the cover.After years of not really understanding for example, soft proofing, I now do.I love my printer again:)
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