Integrated Color Management with GMB Profilemaker- 4 Day GIA Seminar

Integrated Color Management
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This week I taught the 4 Day Seminar entitled Integrated Color Management with a full house. The attendees were from all over the world including Columbia and Indonesia. Thanks to Neil, Sen Wei, Tanya, Wesley, Juan, Jon, and Carlos. This comprehensive 4-day program is the best way for graphics industry professionals to learn all of the components of color management. From calibration to workflow, attendees fully understand the creation and integration of profiles for cameras, scanners, monitors and printers to get outstanding color throughout their workflow.

In a small classroom workshop, we covered all aspects of GretagMacbeth ProfileMaker, including profile creation, tweaking and judging. We also address workflow issues including matching Pantone® colors, setting up desktop applications, batch conversions and using color measurement instruments.

Attendees created their own color-managed workflow at their own fully-equipped workstation and was able to get matching colors from original to final print at the conclusion of the course. We also discuss how to communicate color management with your customers and eliminate color workflow bottlenecks. Whether you have a desktop inkjet or are going out to press, this class will help you get the color you expect every time.

Participants receive a certificate of completion, presentation handouts, GIA’s Need to Know: Digital Basics and Need to Know: Color manuals.



Who Should Attend
Anyone with color issues should attend! That includes: photographers, digital print shops, commercial printers, graphic designers, resellers, color consultants and manufacturers.


Agenda

Color Management Review
• Basics of color
• How the color management process works
• Human perception issues

ProfileMaker
• Capture Profiles
• Camera
• Scanner
• Display Profiles
• Monitor types
• Settings
• Viewing conditions
• Output Profiles
• Calibration
• RGB profiling
• CMYK linearization and ink limits
• CMYK profiling
• n-color
• Advanced Profiling
• Press
• Grand Format

Measure Tool
• Correcting for print variation
• Calibration issues
• Verification

ProfileEditor
• Using ProfileEditor tools to tweak profiles
• Updating CMYK profiles
• Evaluating and comparing color gamuts

Setting Up Applications
• Adobe® Photoshop®

• Acrobat®
• QuarkXPress™
• OS options, Mac OS X
• Handling capture to application
• Customer file to application
• Embedded profiles
• Client coordination

Soft Proofing
• Adobe
• Quark

Working Spaces to Print
• Adobe
• Quark
• RGB Driver
• CMYK RIP
• RIP vs. application color management
• Proofing

Spot Color Matching
• Using ICC profiles to build Pantone color libraries
• Matching actual Pantone vs. process colors
• Application setup
• RIP options
• Eye-One Share / Color
• Color Picker
• CXF color sharing

Batch Processing
• iQueue

Case Study Workflows
• Photo lab
• Sign shop
• Commercial printer

Daniel J. Cox of Natural Exposures - Bozeman, Montana.

Daniel J Cox of Natural Exposures
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I had the pleasure this last week to working with celebrated photographer Dan Cox of Natural Exposures. Although Dan was on a shoot in Africa I worked with his very knowledgable internal staff setting up a comlete color managed workflow. Printing to a hp Designjet 130nr and an hp Photosmart 8750, Natural Exposures hopes to get the absolute best quality in printing. I along with Kimberly Brown-Azzerello of hp implemented and audited a workflow of custom ICC conversions and soft-proofing. Bozeman Montana is absolutely beautiful and thanks to Beth and her team of smart and capable interns for making my stay so pleasant.