CHAPTER 1
Color Management and Why We Need It
Why This Book Was Written
Other than the promise of fame and fortune? Truth be told, I had to be convinced by some very persuasive friends and colleagues to undertake such a project. In the end, I decided to write a book for those people who felt that color management was too difficult—in other words, a very large audience. There are a number of excellent books on the subject of color management; some written by good friends! I wanted to write a book, with a number of self-paced tutorials, to help readers not only understand how a process works but what buttons to press.
My analogy (I am big on analogies, as you will see) was that of someone who has to learn how to become a good driver. Although it ...
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