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Color Confidence: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Color Management Paperback – 12 Mar. 2004

by Tim Grey (Author)
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"Color Confidence is one book that no photographer, especially me, can afford to be without!"
Art Morris, Photographer (www.birdsasart.com)

Establishing a successful color management workflow that produces predictable results is an important –– yet tricky –– undertaking. Most photographers are all too familiar with the frustration of a print not matching the image on the monitor. In Color Confidence, digital imaging expert Tim Grey provides the crucial information you need to get the color you want, every time.

His results–oriented guide shows you how to manage color effectively across all devices. He demystifies complicated topics and takes you through each component of a color–managed workflow step–by–step.

Designed for busy photographers, this full–color guide cuts through the theory, focusing on the practical information you need to make the best color decisions from capture to output.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0782143164
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0782143164
  3. Publisher
    Sybex
  4. Publication date
    12 Mar. 2004
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    20.37 x 1.65 x 25.55 cm
  7. Print length
    252 pages
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" Color Confidence is one book that no photographer, especially me, can afford to be without!"
Art Morris, Photographer (www.birdsasart.com)

Establishing a successful color management workflow that produces predictable results is an important –– yet tricky –– undertaking. Most photographers are all too familiar with the frustration of a print not matching the image on the monitor. In Color Confidence: The Digital Photographer′s Guide to Color Management, digital imaging expert Tim Grey offers immediate access to the crucial information you need to get the color you want, every time.

Color Confidence is a results–oriented guide to managing color effectively across all devices. In his approachable style, Tim Grey demystifies the complicated topics and leads you step–by–step through each component of a color–managed workflow. Designed for busy photographers, this full–color guide cuts through the theory, focusing on the practical information you need to make the best color decisions from capture to output.

Inside, you′ll discover the ins and outs of color management, including how to:

  • Choose, calibrate, and profile your monitor and scanner
  • Configure Photoshop color settings
  • Manage digital camera color with presets and custom profiles
  • Evaluate images and make accurate color adjustments
  • Color–adjust black–and–white images
  • Build custom printer profiles or utilize generic ones
  • Prepare and adjust images for print with soft proofing and the gamut warning
  • Evaluate prints against standard targets
  • Figure out what to do when prints don t match
  • Produce color–accurate images for the web, e–mail, and digital slideshows
  • Get familiar with process–specific workflows: (scan to print, digital capture to print, CMYK output, Web, e–mail, and digital projection)
  • And more!

About the Author

Tim Grey is an instructor at the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging and editor of The Digital Image. He regularly contributes articles to Outdoor Photographer, PC Photo, Digital PHOTO PRO, MSN Photos, and many more print and online publications. He publishes a daily e–mail list, ?Digital Darkroom Questions? (DDQ) in which he answers questions from enthusiasts and pros about the digital darkroom.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sybex (12 Mar. 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 252 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0782143164
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0782143164
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.37 x 1.65 x 25.55 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

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Tim Grey

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Tim Grey is regarded as one of the top educators in digital photography and imaging, offering clear guidance on complex subjects through his writing and speaking. He loves learning as much as he possibly can about digital imaging, and he loves sharing that information even more.

Tim's work combines several of his greatest passions: technology, teaching, photography, writing, and travel. All of these have been part of his life in some way for as long as he can remember, and became a major focus starting in high school. He has been focused on digital photography and imaging for over 10 years.

Tim has written more than a dozen books on digital imaging for photographers, including the best-selling Photoshop CS4 Workflow and Take Your Best Shot. He has also had hundreds of articles published in magazines such as Digital Photo Pro, Outdoor Photographer, and PC Photo, among others. He publishes the Digital Darkroom Questions email newsletter, as well as the Digital Darkroom Quarterly print newsletter. Tim teaches through workshops, seminars, and appearances at major events. He is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of Instructors.

With such a busy schedule, Tim doesn't get much time to actually take pictures. He squeezes in as much photography as he can during his business travels, and also takes advantage of every opportunity to photograph near his home in Bellevue, Washington.

Tim can be contacted at tim@timgrey.com.

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  • Conrad J. Obregon
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Title Tells It All
    Reviewed in the United States on 15 June 2004
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    Some people shoot pictures with digital cameras, download them, print them up and are happy with whatever they get. Others complain if there is the least deviation in color between what they remember seeing and what gets printed up. It is at this latter group that "Color Confidence" is aimed.
    Tim Grey, the author, is a respected teacher of Photoshop techniques and is known to many for the Digital Darkroom Questions mailing list, which many digital photographers read on a daily basis.
    This book is aimed at a single issue in digital photography: how to make the output of the digital photography process, be it individual print, world-wide web, or printing press, match the color that the photographer visualized when he took a picture. Several years ago, when photographers were less sophisticated and happy with the ease of getting digital output, this was scarcely a question, but as digital photographers became more experienced (and as affordable techniques became available) more and more photographers began to ask why the output of their printers didn't look like their monitors. The field of color management was born.
    With a minimum of technical jargon, the author explains the nature of color. He then tells you how to establish color profiles for input devices, like cameras and scanners, processing devices like computers, and output devices like ink-jet printers, so that all of the devices in the digital darkroom pass on information about the digital photograph that will insure consistency. For computer software, Grey assumes the use of the industry standard, Photoshop. If you use some other image processing software, you will have to interpolate from Photoshop, or find some other source of color management information.
    If you read every word in this book, Grey might appear pedantic, because when he discusses using several different devices for a particular purpose, he will repeat many of the same instructions, word for word. But if you later pick up the book, while you are sitting at your computer, you know that what you are reading will be the whole story for the operation and tool that you are using, and that some important hint is not hidden elsewhere.
    I?ve long considered myself to be relatively savvy when it comes to color management. However, I picked up a few tips about along the way that clearly made the book worthwhile for me. For example, I understood the function of "soft-proofing" but never really developed a regular work process dealing with this technique. Then I read Grey's discussion and a light bulb went on.
    This is not exciting reading, but the author is clear and direct and moves the subject along quickly. If you need to learn about color management for digital photography, this is the book for you.
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  • Michel C.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in Canada on 4 February 2016
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    Excellent
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  • John Isner
    4.0 out of 5 stars One out of five stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 16 September 2011
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    I'm new to color management, and this book does a great job of demystifying the subject, not only explaining the concepts but showing how to apply them.
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  • Stephe Koontz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great simple book on color management
    Reviewed in the United States on 25 April 2005
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    Simple to read book explaining color management. If you're looking for a technical manual full of design specs, buy something else. If you're looking for an easy to read non-techy book that explains how human color vision works, how color management in the digital world is used and the how/why of applying it, buy this book. Given the low price used, it's a "must have" book for digital photographers. Once I read this, I finally understand what hundreds of technically written web sites failed to get across. I just thought I underastood what this book simply explains is normal plain english. Like I said, maybe a techy person would find this book wordy?
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  • Ramesh
    5.0 out of 5 stars A practical book on a not so simple subject
    Reviewed in the United States on 2 November 2019
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    Item received in good condition and the price is very reasonable for it’s condition.It is a book on colour management and I will be using it to understand the principles of colour management and to get actionable information
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