[Herman Teeuwen]

Below you'll find a list with links related to color management.

Please feel free to add your favorite links.

'Color Management Primer' by Jay Kinghorn
- Part I: Color Management Overview: http://photo.net/learn/digital-photograp...anagement/
- Part II: Monitor Profiling: http://photo.net/learn/digital-photograp...profiling/
- Part III: Color Settings: http://photo.net/learn/digital-photograp...-settings/

'An Introduction to Digital Color Management' by Mauro Boscarol
http://www.boscarol.com/pages/cms_eng/index.html

Dry Creek Photo - Ethan Hansen
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/color_management.htm

Cambridge in Colour - Tutorials
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm

'The ColorShop Color Primer' by Fred Bunting
http://www.xrite.com/documents/apps/publ...unting.pdf
Alternative link

'Expert Guide Color Management' by Heidelberg
http://www.us.heidelberg.com/wwwbinaries...nt_eng.pdf

'A Practical Guide and Tutorial to Digital Color Management for Photographers' by Kory Gunnarsen
http://www.booksmartstudio.com/color_tutorial/

Color Management White Papers from LaCie
http://www.lacie.com/technologies/techno...m?id=10029

'The Primary Colors Are Not Red, Blue, and Yellow' by Thomas A. Whiteman
http://www.pinc.org//pages/article.asp?vrecord=420

'Digital photography color management basics' - ICC White Paper #20
http://www.color.org/ICC_white_paper_20_...basics.pdf

'Rendering the Print: the Art of Photography' - Adobe technical paper by Karl Lang
http://www.lumita.com/site_media/work/wh..._image.pdf

'Color and color spaces' by Douglas A. Kerr
http://doug.kerr.home.att.net/pumpkin/Color_Models.pdf

'The role of working spaces in Adobe applications' technical paper by Andrew Rodney for Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/ph...lspace.pdf

'Color Management Overview' on Apple Developer Connection
http://developer.apple.com/documentation...l/csintro/
PDF: http://developer.apple.com/documentation...sintro.pdf

'Why Color Management' by James C. King
http://www.color.org/french/whycolormanagement.pdf
http://www.color.org/colormanagementtutorial.zip

'The Art and Science of Printer Profiling' by Giorgio Trucco
http://www.jirvana.com/pdfs/printer_profiling_1.pdf

'Digital Image Basics' by Jonathan Sachs
http://www.dl-c.com/basics.pdf

'Digital Color Reproduction' - OSA Handbook: The Science of Color - by Wandell and Silverstein
http://white.stanford.edu/~brian/psy221/...uction.pdf

Understanding Illuminants
http://www.xrite.com/documents/apps/publ...00002a.pdf

Gia Clear Papers - UV Brighteners
http://www.graphintel.com/downloads/Clea...teners.pdf

Munsell Color Science Laboratory FAQ
http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/outreach/faq.php

Color management articles on Digital Outback Photo
http://www.outbackphoto.com/color_management/index.html

'Adobe Systems' Implementation of Black Point Compensation'
http://www.color.org/AdobeBPC.pdf
http://partners.adobe.com/public/develop...obeBPC.pdf

'Color reproduction in digital photography' by Simon Tindemans
http://21stcenturyshoebox.com/essays/col...ction.html

The Darkroom Makes a Comeback (Part 2) on creativepro
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/12054-1.html

'Light under control!' by Danny Pascale & Roger Breton
http://www.babelcolor.com/download/Light...-11-08.pdf

Eye-One tutorials
http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/index/commu...orials.htm

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_topics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Color
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Color_space

ColorWiki by Chromix
http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/ColorWiki_Home

Bruce MacEvoy's online resource on color
http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/wcolor.html

'Frequently asked questions about Colour Physics' by Stephen Westland
http://www.colourware.co.uk/cpfaq.pdf

'How human vision and perception affect our view of colors' by George O'Hanlon
http://www.naturalpigments.com/education...icleID=113

'Human Color Vision' chapter 1 from 'Color Appearance Models, 2nd Edition' by Mark D. Fairchild
Free excerpt from Wiley.
http://media.wiley.com/product_data/exce...012161.pdf

'Eye, Brain, and Vision' online book by David Hubel
http://hubel.med.harvard.edu/bcontex.htm

'Fogra Softproof Handbuch' (in German)
http://forschung.fogra.org/dokumente/upl..._47d2c.pdf

Precise Color Communication - Konica Minolta
http://www2.konicaminolta.eu/eu/Measuring/pcc/en/
Zipped PDF: http://www.konicaminolta.eu/fileadmin/CO...nglish.zip
Other languages: http://www2.konicaminolta.eu/eu/Measuring/pcc/

The Language of Light - Konica Minolta
http://www.konicaminolta.eu/measuring-in...light.html
PDF: http://www.konicaminolta.eu/fileadmin/CO..._Light.pdf


Personal web pages

Bill Atkinson
http://www.billatkinson.com/
Bill Atkinson - Color profile downloads
http://homepage.mac.com/billatkinson/FileSharing2.html

C F Systems - Peter Dunthorn
http://www.c-f-systems.com/

Computer-Darkroom - Ian Lyons
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/home.htm

Gernot Hoffmann
http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/howww41a.html

Joseph Holmes
http://www.josephholmes.com/

Don Hutcheson Consulting
http://www.hutchcolor.com/

Norman Koren's tutorials
http://www.normankoren.com/#Tutorials
http://www.normankoren.com/color_management.html

Karl Lang
http://www.lumita.com/

Bruce Lindbloom (color calculators, spreadsheets, color equations etc.)
http://brucelindbloom.com/

Marcel Patek - Web site dedicated to technical aspects and color management in digital photography
http://www.marcelpatek.com/

Robin Myers Imaging
http://www.rmimaging.com/

'Northlight Images' - Keith Cooper
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews.html
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/featu...Management

Danny Pascale
http://www.babelcolor.com/

Charles Poynton
http://www.poynton.com/

Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/

Edmund Ronald's Color Management News
http://photofeedback.blogspot.com/

WMU Profiling Review - Abhay Sharma
http://www.wmich.edu/ppse/staff/downloads/index.html


Organizations

International Color Consortium - ICC
http://www.color.org/

ICC White Papers
http://www.color.org/whitepapers.html

International Commission on Illumination - CIE
http://www.cie.co.at/

European Color Initiative - ECI
http://www.eci.org/
ECI Compendium for digital photograpy - 'DigiPix' (7.5 MB)
http://www.eci.org/eci/downloads/ECI-en/...300_EN.pdf

Fogra
http://www.fogra.org/

Ugra
http://www.ugra.ch/


Profiling services

Cathy's profiles
http://www.cathysprofiles.com/

Chromix ColorValet
http://www.chromix.com/

Colourperfect - Ian Scholey
http://www.colourperfect.co.uk

colorXact Online Profiler
http://www.colorxact.net/

Dry Creek Photo
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/

Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/

Edmund Ronald
http://photofeedback.blogspot.com/

Neil Snape
http://www.neilsnape.com/


Color management gear

Chromix
http://www.chromix.com/

Colour Confidence
http://www.colourconfidence.com


Displays

Wikipedia on display technologies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_device

Karl Lang on LCD displays
http://www.outbackphoto.com/tforum/viewt...picID=1700

Are LCD Monitors Ready? - Seybold report
http://www.quato.de/german/produkte/ip21...t_lcds.pdf

'Display Calibration Devices: Methods, Accuracy, and Cost' - X-Rite white paper by Karl Lang
http://www.lumita.com/site_media/work/wh...mments.pdf

'Calibrating the Digital Darkroom Environment' - Adobe whitepaper by Karl Lang
http://www.lumita.com/site_media/work/wh...rkroom.pdf

Panel Search - Search feature for inquiries on panels in TV's and monitors
http://www.flatpanels.dk/panels.php

DisplayMate - Testing and Evaluating Displays and Projectors
http://www.displaymate.com/testing.html

EIZO - White Papers
http://www.eizo.com/support/wp/index.asp

Color Matching Between sRGB Monitors and Wide Color Gamut Monitors - EIZO white paper
http://www.eizo.com/support/wp/pdf/wp_08-002.pdf

Marcel Patek on LCD displays
http://www.marcelpatek.com/LCD.html


Web browsers and color management

Web browser color management tutorial - G. Ballard
http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page...files.html

Is your system ICC Version 4 ready? - ICC
http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

Farbmanagement im Browser - Andreas Beitinger (in German)
http://foto.beitinger.de/browser_farbman...index.html

Enabling color management in Firefox 3
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content...-9311-9478


Other color management forums

Adobe color management forum
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/
http://adobe.groupbrowser.com/f47.html (read-only)

Apple Colorsync-users mailing list
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Colorsync-users

Chromix ColorForums
http://www.colorforums.com/

Luminous Landscape color management forum
http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/inde...owforum=45

Yahoo color theory group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/colortheory/


Calibrating ACR

Bruce Fraser's article on creativepro
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/21351-1.html

Tom Fors
http://fors.net/chromoholics/

Simon Tindemans
http://21stcenturyshoebox.com/tools/ACRcalibrator.html

Rags Gardner
http://www.rags-int-inc.com/PhotoTechStu...libration/

Evaluation of ACR scripts by Marco Noldin
http://www.photoactivity.com/Pagine/Arti...ole_en.asp


Books on color management

'Real World Color Management' by Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321267...oding=UTF8
'Real World Color Management' - Downloads, Granger rainbow, GretagMacBeth Color Checker in LAB and ProPhoto, download link to GMB ProfileMaker 4.1.5 which contains a functioning MeasureTool (no dongle required)
http://www.colorremedies.com/realworldco...loads.html

'Understanding Color Management' by Abhay Sharma
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401814...oding=UTF8

'Color Management for Photographers' by Andrew Rodney
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240806...oding=UTF8

'Color Confidence: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Color Management' by Tim Grey
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0782143...oding=UTF8


Books on color science

'The Reproduction of Colour' by R.W.G. Hunt
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470024...oding=UTF8

'Billmeyer and Saltzman's Principles of Color Technology' by Roy S. Berns
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471194...oding=UTF8

'Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae' by Günther Wyszecki, W.S. Stiles
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471399...oding=UTF8


CMM

Adobe Color Management Module
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/#cmm

Argyll Color Management System
http://www.argyllcms.com/

ArgyllCMS GUIs
- ArgyllCMSGUI: http://colorhacks.blogspot.com/2008/08/g...msgui.html
- dispcalGUI: http://colorhacks.blogspot.com/2008/08/g...lguoi.html
- Javascript GUI: http://colorhacks.blogspot.com/2008/08/g...cript.html

Little cms
http://www.littlecms.com/


Tools

'3d gamut comparison tool' by Dry Creek, lets you compare 3 profiles at a time in 3D - good for understanding what you might be missing in the camera/working space/printer conversions
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/tools/print...model.html

Alwan ColorPursuit (Mac only)
http://www.alwancolor.com/english/produc...rsuit.html

BabelColor
http://www.babelcolor.com/

Calibrize 2.0, free tool for visual calibration on Windows XP and Vista
http://www.calibrize.com/

Chromix ColorThink
http://www.chromix.com/colorthink/cxctpro/index.cxsa

Gamutvision by Norman Koren
http://www.gamutvision.com/

ICC Profile Inspector
http://www.color.org/profileinspector.html

IPhoto ICC Inspector
http://www.littlecms.com/iphoto/inspect.htm

'Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP' by Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...layLang=en

PerfX 3D Gamut Viewer, free gamut viewer
http://www.tglc.com/english/PerfX/3D_Gamut_Viewer.html

ProfileDump, this will read the contents of an ICC profile and run the SampleICC validation routine to test for conformance with the current ICC specification.
http://www.color.org/profdump.html

Herman

[ustein]

Herman,

thanks for your great contributions to this forum.

Uwe

[Herman Teeuwen]

Added to list:

Precise Color Communication - Konica Minolta
http://www2.konicaminolta.eu/eu/Measuring/pcc/en/
Zipped PDF: http://www.konicaminolta.eu/fileadmin/CO...nglish.zip
Other languages: http://www2.konicaminolta.eu/eu/Measuring/pcc/

The Language of Light - Konica Minolta
http://www.konicaminolta.eu/measuring-in...light.html
PDF: http://www.konicaminolta.eu/fileadmin/CO..._Light.pdf

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