Learning Color Management

Learn the basics of color management for photography, design, and the web, from calibrating your monitor to choosing the best printer and paper for your artwork.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. The Basics of Digital Color

• Understanding color spaces
• Ensuring that you have the best possible image at capture
• Understanding tools required for color management

2. Why Is Color Workflow So Important?

• Exploring what happens without color management
• Understanding the basics of color workflow for photographers
• Understanding the basics of color workflow for design and the web

3. Get the Best Color Possible in Camera

• Setting up a digital camera for the best image file
• Exploring the benefits of custom camera profiles

4. Monitor Calibration and Profiling

• Choosing a monitor, the window to the digital world
• Understanding why you can't trust your eyes
• Calibrating a display using ColorMunki Display
• Calibrating a display using i1Pro 2

5. Color in Image Editing Applications

• Understanding and choosing color settings in Photoshop
• Understanding color workflow in raw applications, including Lightroom, Aperture, and Capture NX
• Setting color standards for the Adobe Creative Suite

6. Color and Printing

• Choosing the best printer
• Exploring the benefits of custom printer profiles
• Comparing factory printer profiles to real-world printer profiles
• Creating a printer profile with ColorMunki Photo
• Creating a printer profile with i1Pro
• Understanding color gamut and rendering intents
• Soft proofing images in Photoshop
• Getting prints that match the image in the soft proof
• Soft proofing for lab printing and for the web
• Soft proofing in Lightroom and other raw processing applications
• Choosing the right fine-art paper

Conclusion

• Next steps