Free Practical Colour Management Guide
May 23, 2008
IMPORTANT UPDATE – Our e-Book has now been re-written and updated to become 90+ pages. Available as a E-Book or as a physical book, you can obtain it by clicking here.
This fantastic eBook in PDF format, contains over 60 pages of practical and useful information and is ideal for ANYONE intererested in Colour Management.
Ideal for digital photographers, designers, retouchers, printers – it is packed with the insider knowledge that will give you the skills to understand, implement and troubleshoot a full Colour Managed Workflow on your computer.
Information is applicable to both Apple Macintosh and Windows computers and has been written by Rob Griffith, one of the UK’s leading colour management experts who has over 10 years in industry experience.
Document size = 15Mb [Download Here]
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Coins and Medals – colour management at work in museums
May 21, 2008
Written by Rob Griffith.
I always enjoy working with Museums, it is fascinating to look behind the scenes and see things the public never do. The maze of corridors lined with collections and rows of bookshelves with obscure leather bound volumes go on for miles.
The British Museum has been a regular customer since we did project colour managing their Photographic department a few years ago. Last week I visited the Coins & Medals department, not an obvious candidate for colour management perhaps but since I have been doing colour management for nearly ten years now I have learnt that all kinds of people see a need for colour accuracy.
The Coins & Medals team were using an Epson Expression 10000XL flatbed scanner to scan some of their collection of 80,000 bank notes and coins and had bought from us a copy of X-Rite’s ProfileMaker Scanner Module, a couple of IT8 targets and an X-Rite EyeOne Display 2 for monitor calibration. Read more
