Focal Press Book/CD: Color Management for Photographers

Color Management for Photographers: Hands on Techniques for Photoshop Users, addresses the difficult subject of color management in a way that can help you get real work accomplished. This is the first book that moves beyond esoteric color management theory and detailed explanations of how things work to explain how to achieve a desired effect with step by step instructions so you can get on with creating and printing successful images.

Complete with what button to push when explanations, this guide will help you navigate color management and further solidify comprehension of techniques with self paced tutorials that enable you to practice what Rodney preaches. This practical, learn by doing approach is enhanced by the accompanying CD-Rom which includes sample files for practice as well as tutorials and software.

Written with the photographer in mind, this book is also a great hands-on guide for graphic designers, those in prepress/print and, more generally, the majority of people who feel color management is too difficult. This book will help to explain this difficult concept in terms you can understand so that you may control and enhance your photographic vision.

Readership:
While the book is aimed at the working, professional photographer and advanced amateur photographers, it has information that is very pertinent to graphic designers and those in the prepress and print world. Also, this book is useful for students studying Photoshop.

Contents: Introduction; What is CMS and why do we need it?; Photoshop and color management; Building Profiles; The Display; The Scanner; Digital Cameras; The Printer; Printing to a press; Using profiles outside of Photoshop; CMS utilities; Case Studies; CD with tutorials.

About The Author:  Andrew Rodney is owner of The Digital Dog, a digital imaging training and consulting business located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Andrew is one of only a handful of Adobe Certified Technical trainers for Adobe Photoshop in the country and has been a beta site for Photoshop since version 2.5. Andrew was also the technical editor for Photo Electronic Imaging magazine and is currently the tech editor for the Imaging Revue web site (www.imagingrevue.com). Founding member of Pixel Genius.

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