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 enlarge | Authors: Eddie Tapp, Rick Lucas
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 346205
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 162
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0596527683
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780596527686
ASIN: 0596527683
Publication Date: October 27, 2006
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 Color management made easy January 15, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Eddie Tapp's book is an easy to read and understand book on what can be a daunting subject. His easy going, personable style demystifies the subject and makes setting up your computer for better color mangement a breeze.
A great resource for newbs and pros December 6, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was looking for a book to expand and hone my knowledge of colour calibration and management, since I do retouching and art direction professionally and I want to better control my press output. I was a little worried that this would be too basic when I started the book, since it delves into the fundamentals like what a colour gamut is, but thankfully it builds on those basics quickly to provide very helpful techniques that professionals can use to actually improve their work. Setting up a fully-calibrated working environment, from scanner to camera to screen to press, can be a daunting task since each piece of the puzzle needs to be right for it to work but the author does a very good job of explaining these techniques while keeping the tone light. More people should be reading these types of books since getting what you want from an image or design is so critically linked to unfortunately technical-looking things like IT8 and ink-limit charts. Titles like this will hopefully help make this knowledge more commonplace. My only criticism is that the book should have covered more about CMYK, dot gain and black generation since it mentions that you can create a custom CMYK profile in Photoshop but doesn't show any practical applications like making a low-colour CMYK profile for rich greyscale conversion. Many people will still be just hitting CMYK thinking that if the profiles for their devices are right, then they will be set for ideal saturation without understanding they can control the plates. Hopefully this will be addressed in coming editions. Still, a great book.
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