Practical Color Management from O'Reilly
by , 11:00 AM EST, October 30th, 2006
O'Reilly announced the immediate availability of its latest title, Practical Color Management, on Monday. The book by 2006 Photoshop Hall of Fame winner Eddie Tapp explains the theory behind color managed workflows, how to establish a color management-friendly workflow, choosing color spaces, hardware calibration and profiling, and more.
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This is the second book in the five book Photoshop Workflow Setups series. Practical Color Management is priced at US$29.99.
Observer Comments
I'd be very interested in a review of this if anyone gets ahold of a copy. The problem with most workflow and color management guides is that they assume that you have multiple sources of input and a single destination.
I have a single source of input and a wide variety of output. Some require sRGB. Some require some CMYK variant. Some Adobe RGB. One can nearly handle all of ProPhoto RGB.
If Adobe let me select which color management policy to use on a per-project basis I would be in good shape. But I can't use the Bridge Synchronization very well if I'm working on multiple projects in the same timeframe. I wish I could switch as easily as I can recall workspaces, and have Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign all update for that project. Like, tell it that all files that are stored within a certain parent folder should be handled as Adobe RGB, while everything under this other project folder gets sRGB.
But no. I have to switch my entire color management system frequently. And then hope that I don't screw up and forget to change back before opening and working on a file that is already half complete.
Anyway, if this book has an answer I'll be a very happy man. Otherwise I hope Adobe will someday understand that we don't all work with the same medium for all projects.
- Jon
QuoteJonkun227 wrote:
I'd be very interested in a review of this if anyone gets ahold of a copy. The problem with most workflow and color management guides is that they assume that you have multiple sources of input and a single destination.
Jon -
I think a review of this book sounds like a great idea. I'll get a copy and run a full review as soon as I can.
Jeff
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