Understanding Digital Color. Learning color management is easier if you acquire the pertinent books.

FLAAR is going through the same learning curve with color management as everyone else. My first lesson in ICC color profiles was at Ilford. The highly experienced operator just dropped in one ICC profile after another to see which gave the desired result…

I am not sure that is how it's supposed to happen, but in 1999 we did get fabulous color on an 8-color Ilford version of a ColorSpan printer.

Color management, digital color ... everything that is confusing to the millions of people that now have to learn how to scan and print digitally. At last books are available to help you.

Understanding Digital Color, 2nd edition, Phil Green, $65, hardcover (professionally printed and nicely bound).

This book covers: Fundamentals of Color, Color Measurement, Digitizing Color, Scanning and Digital Photography, Color Conversion and Separation, Color Management, PostScript and PDF, Output Systems, Workflow, File Preparation, Proofing, and Digital Printing.

Buy this book. Order it, read it, and profit from your increased knowledge. GATF also has tutorial programs on CD, which are probably better than after-market CDs from third party sources.

GATF Press (Graphic Arts Technical Foundation) gatf.org, Tel 800 662-3916.

GATF books booth at GOA tradeshow.

Other books you will want from GATF:

• Guide to Desktop Publishing, James Cavuoto and Steven Beale,
  

• The GATF Guide to Desktop Publishing, 3rd edition, Hal Hinderliter
  

• Binding, Finishing, and Mailing, GATF Press
  

• Digital Photography: New Turf for Printers, David L.Milburn and John L. Carroll
  

• Color Scanning and Imaging Systems, Gary G. Field, GATF Press
  

• Color and its Reproduction, 2nd edition, Gary G. Field, GATF Press
  

• GATF Practical Guide to Color Management, Rich Adams and Joshua Weisberg, GATF Press

Nicholas holds a few of the books on color management that he uses in his course on digital photography as input for wide format inkjet printing. This course also covers scanning.

Last updated May 28, 2004.
Previously updated July 2002.