October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
168 pages
6h 8m
English
Content preview from Practical Color Management: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography
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Introduction
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My Own Color Management Journey
Early on in my digital experiences, Don Stevenson, an accomplished commercial photographer and good
friend, told me about ICC proles and color management
. Don had only read about the promise of ICC
proles but encouraged me to get involved. After a little investigation, I did just that. Chris Warner, then with
Apple Computer, introduced me to what was then an innovative solution: the Color Tron by Lightsource. And
it all started to come together.
A few years later, GretagMacbeth and Apple had a series of seminars on color management, showing
instrumen
ts and preaching the advent of using ICC proles. But there was never any real information on how
to actually use these proles. I was already using them with relative success but never knew if I was doing so
properly or not, and I had hoped that these seminars would reveal any hidden secrets. Instead, I would always
leave these (free) seminars knowing there were good instruments to use but never seeing how to actually
implement them in a workow. S
o I continued to create proles using what I call “Back Door Proling” with
four-color printing and professional photo labs with great success.
The rst publicized success story using proles came from a project that Stephen Johnson (digital explorer
and innovator) had worked on. He shared his calibrated monitor prole with a printer in T
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