Color Management In Digital Photography: Ten Easy Steps to True Colors in Photoshop

by Hinkel, Brad

• ISBN13: 9781933952024
• ISBN10: 1933952024
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

Color Management for Photographers simplifies the complex language of color management in digital photography. Author, Brad Hinkel's process for moving images from capture to print while maintaining color management, provides enough information to create a simple yet effective system, while allowing the photographer to get on with photography. Based on classes and workshops given by Hinkel to hundreds of students of digital photography, this simple approach to color management does not mean it sacrifices quality and effectiveness.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Ten Steps for Color Management	p. 3
Choose a Color Space	p. 4
Get a Good Monitor	p. 4
Create a Good Work Environment	p. 4
Calibrate and Profile Your Monitor	p. 4
Get a Good Printer	p. 4
Create Basic Prints	p. 5
Test Your Color Management System	p. 5
Create Advanced Prints	p. 5
Obtain Profiles	p. 5
Adjusting Colors for Advanced Printing	p. 5
What is Color Management?	p. 7
Select a Color Space	p. 13
What is a Color Space?	p. 14
Color Space Options	p. 15
sRGB	p. 15
Adobe RGB	p. 16
sRGB vs. Adobe RGB	p. 17
Some Other Color Spaces	p. 19
ColorMatch RGB	p. 19
ProPhoto RGB	p. 19
eciRGB	p. 20
scRGB	p. 20
Configuring Your Color Space	p. 21
Convert to sRGB	p. 21
Get a Good Monitor	p. 23
Selecting a Monitor	p. 24
Some Specific Monitor Recommendations	p. 27
Laptop Displays	p. 30
Video Cards	p. 31
Create a Good Work Environment	p. 33
The Effect of Environment on Color	p. 34
The Environment Matters	p. 34
Room Lighting	p. 35
Use a Monitor Hood	p. 36
Set Your Computer's Desktop to Boring Gray	p. 36
Remove Distracting Colors from Your Environment	p. 38
Proofing Light	p. 38
Profile Your Monitor	p. 41
Tools for Monitor Calibration and Profiling	p. 42
Monaco OPTIX & Monaco EZcolor	p. 42
Gretag MacBeth Eye-One	p. 42
ColorEyes Display	p. 42
Calibration	p. 43
Profiling	p. 44
Get a Good Printer	p. 45
Categories of Printer Choices	p. 47
Inexpensive Photo Printers	p. 47
Printing Online with a Photo Lab	p. 48
HP Photosmart Printers	p. 51
Epson UltraChrome Printers	p. 52
Epson K3 Printers	p. 53
Basic Printing	p. 55
Main Elements of Good Printing	p. 56
Using the Printer Driver	p. 57
Use the Printer as it was Designed	p. 57
A look at the Printer Driver	p. 57
Basic Printing	p. 58
Mac Print Dialog	p. 60
Windows Print Dialog	p. 60
Online Printing Services	p. 61
A Color Management Workflow	p. 63
A Basic Workflow	p. 63
Capture using your Working Color Space	p. 63
Converting RAW Files	p. 64
Opening Your Images in Photoshop	p. 66
Identifying the Color Space of Images in Photoshop	p. 67
Convert to sRGB	p. 68
Printing Options from within Photoshop	p. 68
Test Your Color System	p. 71
The Color Test Image	p. 72
Visual Evaluation	p. 73
Compare a Printed Test Image to the Monitor	p. 74
Compare the Printed Test Image to a Print You Make	p. 75
Advanced Printing	p. 77
Outline for Advanced Printing	p. 78
Setup the Soft Proof	p. 78
Resolving Changes to Colors due to the Soft Proof	p. 79
Printing with Profiles	p. 79
Mac Print Dialog	p. 79
Windows Print Dialog	p. 80
On Rendering Intents	p. 81
The Basic Problem - Gamut Mapping	p. 81
Gamut Compression	p. 82
Gamut Clipping	p. 83
The Rendering Intents	p. 83
Perceptual Rendering Intent (Photographic)	p. 84
Relative Colorimetric Rendering Intent (Graphic)	p. 85
The Other Rendering Intents	p. 86
Obtaining Profiles	p. 87
Manufacturer's Profiles	p. 88
Custom Profiles	p. 88
Making your Own Printer Profiles	p. 89
Installing Profiles	p. 89
Profile Names	p. 90
Adjusting Your Color for Printing	p. 91
Soft Proofing	p. 92
Fixing Color Shifts	p. 94
Paper Color	p. 94
Color Cast in the Profile	p. 97
Resolving Out-of-Gamut Colors	p. 98
Inspection	p. 98
Change Rendering Intent	p. 99
Reduce Saturation	p. 100
Color Mapping with Change Color	p. 101
Index	p. 105
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