12Digital Color

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Digital images are great, but one distressing fact about them is that the same code values do not mean the same thing from one type of digital image to another. This chapter is about the weird and wonderful world of digital color and its impact on our work in visual effects. We start out with a look at Color Spaces, just to understand a bit about the terms and issues that will be used in later sections. This is important material as it entails universal principles that permeate virtually everything we do in visual effects.

The real action starts in the next section on working in linear. ...

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