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Who Should Attend
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Why Attend
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Led by an X-Rite Color Expert, this 2-day workshop provides an excellent introduction to the essential components of color management. Through step-by-step demonstrations, hands-on interaction, and guided exercises, you will learn how to attain the best possible color during capture, display, editing, proofing, and final output.
The Introduction to Color Management course is ideal for anyone who is new to digital color or color management or frustrated by color issues, including:
- Photographers and photo labs that work primarily in RGB workflows using wet-lab process and inkjet processes
- Graphic designers who need to know how to prepare files for proper color output
- Users of networked toner based printers who need better color in their business graphics
- Color professionals who are unsure of which tools to purchase
- Manufacturers and resellers who support color management
This course is intended to be an introduction to color management. If you are interested in more in-depth knowledge about any of the topics, consider the 4-day Integrated Color Management course.
- This two-day workshop is limited to 6 to 8 students, so you are guaranteed to receive individualized attention.
- You will have access to your own workstation in a fully equipped professional training classroom, including a range of color measurement instruments and current profiling software.
- A variety of hands-on activities and workflow exercises help you learn by doing. Your X-Rite Color Expert will provide plenty of time for discussion and questions, ensuring you leave with the knowledge you need to implement what you learn when you get back ot your workplace.
- Plus, you will receive our full-color workbook, including a variety of “Need to Know” technical documents to help you implement what you learned when you return to your site.
The fundamentals of color, including:
- The goals of color management
- Definitions of important terms
- Overview of color models
- Various lighting conditions
- Description of color vision
- Color versus appearance
- Overview of measurement instruments
How to calibrate, optimize and profile your digital devices, including:
- Overview of cameras and scanner profiling with hands on exercise
- Display profiling
- RGB printer profiling hands-on exercise
- Discuss profiling options
- Basic introduction to CMYK printers and RIPS
How to apply profiles, including:
- Workflow overview
- Setting up applications with Adobe Bridge
- Setting up drivers and RIPs
- Rendering intents
- Properly previewing on display to soft proof images
How to deal with spot and custom colors, including:
- Measuring colors
- Measuring ambient light
- Matching and sharing colors