Real World Color Management, Second Edition

Preface: The Color Management Conundrum

If you’ve picked up this book because you simply want us to tell you which buttons to push when you run into this or that application’s color management features, put it down again. Although this book starts from the point of view of a beginner in color and color management, and builds up from there, we don’t think a cookbook or color management book for dummies could do the topic justice—this isn’t that book.

However, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist (or any other kind) to benefit from this book. What we’ve learned about color management we’ve learned the hard way—by using it, making a lot of mistakes, correcting those mistakes, and using it some more. This is a book for color management users, ...