Color Management 201

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Monitor Calibration

A great place to start

• Adjusts the color going to your display

• Creates a profile that describes your display

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Different kinds of profiles

Monitor profiles

Working space profiles

Printer (output) profiles

Working Spaces

AdobeRGBsRGBProPhotoRGB

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Working spaces

Printer calibration

Canned profiles

Custom profiles

Custom profiling services

Printer profiling procedure

• RGB or CMYK  (Driver or RIP?)

• Targets:o Large or small?o Scrambled or 'visual'?

• Fast or slow (strip reading or patch)?

Profiling procedure...

• Print the target

• Allow for curing

• Measurement

• Combine measurement with reference

• Build profile

o No color management!

Using the profile    

...to print

Using the profile    ...to soft-proof:

o View > Proof setup > Custom

Rendering intents

• Perceptual

• Relative Colorimetric

• Saturation

• Absolute Colorimetric

Lighting

The eye

Questions?