Overview
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Learn the basics of color management for photography, design, and the web, from calibrating your monitor to choosing the best printer and paper for your artwork.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Understanding color spaces
- Ensuring that you have the best possible image at capture
- Understanding tools required for color management
- Exploring what happens without color management
- Understanding the basics of color workflow for photographers
- Understanding the basics of color workflow for design and the web
- Setting up a digital camera for the best image file
- Exploring the benefits of custom camera profiles
- Choosing a monitor, the window to the digital world
- Understanding why you can't trust your eyes
- Calibrating a display using ColorMunki Display
- Calibrating a display using i1Pro 2
- Understanding and choosing color settings in Photoshop
- Understanding color workflow in raw applications, including Lightroom, Aperture, and Capture NX
- Setting color standards for the Adobe Creative Suite
- Choosing the best printer
- Exploring the benefits of custom printer profiles
- Comparing factory printer profiles to real-world printer profiles
- Creating a printer profile with ColorMunki Photo
- Creating a printer profile with i1Pro
- Understanding color gamut and rendering intents
- Soft proofing images in Photoshop
- Getting prints that match the image in the soft proof
- Soft proofing for lab printing and for the web
- Soft proofing in Lightroom and other raw processing applications
- Choosing the right fine-art paper
- Next steps
