Color Management for Digital Photographers for Dummies - Softcover

Padova, Ted; Mason, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470048921 ISBN 13: 9780470048924

Publisher: For Dummies, 2007

Synopsis

• Shows digital photo enthusiasts how to ensure that the color in an image file is accurately represented and reproduced, from camera or scanner to monitor or printer
• Packed with color management solutions that will help novices create picture-perfect images
• Discusses the main components of color management including understanding light, matching digital images to displays and prints, working with color spaces, calibrating a printer, and using color management tools
• Familiarizes readers with the various color management tools that help calibrate consistent picture quality

About this title

About the Author

Ted Padova first began his interest in amateur photography as a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela. He toured five Latin American countries, collecting shoeboxes of slides he hopefully will one day sort out. Upon completion of his two-year Peace Corps tour, he attended the New York Institute of Photography in Manhattan when it was a resident school, earning a diploma in Commercial Photography.
In 2004, he retired from his Digital Imaging Service Bureau and Custom Photo Finishing Lab after 15 years of owning and operating three facilities. He has authored over 25 computer books on Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Adobe Illustrator. Today, he spends his time writing and speaking nationally and internationally on Acrobat PDF and digital imaging.

Don Mason is a graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. He has been a professional photographer for more than three decades and works in virtually every aspect of commercial photography. Don first started using a computer in 1999, when he didn’t believe that digital imaging would ever replace his wing lynch system used for processing all his E-6 film and his darkroom where he made his own C-prints. After 4 years of intensive work in Adobe Photoshop, he abandoned his analog film lab and went completely digital. Today, he divides his time shooting professional commercial photography and printing art prints for a wide range of clients on his two, oversized Epson inkjet printers.

From the Back Cover

Here's your key to perfect color in digital images

Fine-tune brightness, contrast, and tone with Photoshop® Elements and these tips

Shooting great photos is only half the battle tweaking the details in your digital darkroom makes the difference between so-so images and spectacular ones. This book is packed with examples to guide you through understanding color basics, correcting brightness and contrast, getting the exact tone and hue, and creating perfect prints in full color, of course!

Discover how to

• Build a viewing booth
• Create and apply color profiles
• Use adjustment layers to correct contrast
• Achieve great-looking skin tones
• Save money with accurate soft proofs

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470048921
• ISBN 13: 9780470048924
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318