The Digital Fine Print
Contents
1.1 - Introduction, Getting Started
An Introduction:
Getting The Ball Rolling:
1.2 - Colour Basics
- Introduction
- The Incredible Human Eye and its Fickle Nature
- What The Eye Wants
- What Is Colour?
- Light
- Objects
- Sensors
- How To Think About Colour - The Three Part Experience
- A few concepts to know - Gamut, Metamerism, Linear Vs Non-Linear
1.3 - Digital Imaging Fundamentals - Pixels & Bits
1.4 - Colour Management Theory
- A Quick Review
- The Colour Chain - in theory
- The Colour Chain - in practice
- What's The Problem?
- The Solution - Colour Management
- Colour Models Re-visited
- The LAB Colour Model
- Why don't we always use LAB then?
- Colour Spaces - Dictionaries and Boundaries for Colour
- The Two Types of Colour Spaces
- Anatomy of a Colour Space
- Colourants
- Black and White Points
- Tone Reproduction Characteristics
- Device Dependent Colour Spaces
- Profiles
- Why Device Profiles Are Not Enough
- Device Independent Colour Spaces (AKA Working Spaces)
- The Colour Chain In Practice
- It All Works Now, Right?
1.5 - Colour Management Practice Part 1
- A Quick Review
- Making it Work in Practice
- Real World Device Gamuts
- Quick Notes on The Wacky World of Device Profiles
- The Journey of a Single Colour Managed Pixel
- Visualising What We're Doing
- LAB - The Profile Connection Space
- Why Don't We Always Use Lab Then? (Re-visited)
- The Working Space
- Ignore LAB!
- The End Of The Journey
- One More Thing!
- Obtaining / Making Device Profiles
- Input Profiles (Scanner and Camera Profiles)
- Monitor Profiles
- Output Profiles (AKA Printer Profiles)
- Obtaining Custom Output Profiles For Your Own Printer
- Getting Output Profiles From Your Lab
- Making Output Profiles Of Your Lab (if they don't have them available)
- The Truly Clueless Lab
- In the next episode...
1.6 - Colour Management Practice Part 2
Please note all the content is of course copyright (C) Jeremy Daalder 2007