Suggested reading on Color and Color Management

Here is a series of three short and easy-to-read articles about the process that goes on when we try to analyze and manipulate color in a color managed workflow. Read them in order, they provide a broad view of how color is quantified and transformed.

kirk

The RGB Code: The Mysteries of Color Revealed

Part 1: Cracking the RGB Color Code (from Light to XYZ)
http://www.graphics.co​m …-rgb-color-code-light-xyz

Part 2: Cracking the RGB code (From XYZ to RGB, and Other Codes)
http://www.graphics.co​m …e-xyz-rgb-and-other-codes

Part 3: Color Differences and Converting Colors
http://www.graphics.co​m …ces-and-converting-colors

Nice set of articles. Thanks.

If you run across something similarly accessable yet informative regarding rendering intent - You know, Relative, Perceptual, Absolute and Higgs Boson - Please post as well!

Rad

Radtech1 wrote in post #17263507
Nice set of articles. Thanks.

If you run across something similarly accessable yet informative regarding rendering intent - You know, Relative, Perceptual, Absolute and Higgs Boson - Please post as well!

Rad

http://graphics.stanfo​rd.edu …applets/gamutma​pping.html

Enjoy! Take a look at all of the applets:

http://graphics.stanfo​rd.edu …pplets/applets.​html#color

kirk

Read World Color Management is excellent - technical and hard going, but that's color for you. It teaches the basics easily enough.