Color Without Limits 2 by Xrite by Marc Aguilera, Mark Gundlach, and Phil Nelson

Device Independent Color
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The technologies that you use every day to create, edit and print are color management ready—How ready are you? Without an understanding of color and how your applications and hardware handle color, your workflow is going to be all work and no flow. X-Rite Color Services is offering a 20-city seminar tour to help creative directors, designers, photographers and production managers unleash the power of their color.

Get the applied knowledge you need to effectively implement digital color management. Learn how to optimize color for your entire workflow, including inputs, displays, editing, proofing and every kind of final output. Master best practices and color settings for the latest versions of popular applications, including Adobe Creative Suite 2 and Quark 7. Simplify color matching, so that your monitor shows what’s in the file and your printer matches your screen.

Register today online or call toll-free 888.439.4403 x200 to speak with seminar coordinators and register by phone. For printer-friendly details, download the seminar PDF.

As an attendee, you’ll receive our Digital Color Toolkit, equipping you to begin applying color control immediately. The kit includes the Eye-One Display 2 monitor calibrator and software, our “Need to Know: Color” manual and color workbook, DIMA 2007 calibration target and digital file, reference CD, four digital NIK filters, a trial version of SilverFast DC Pro Studio for RAW and discounts from our sponsors.

The fee for the 9am-4pm training is $349 and includes lunch, the Digital Color Toolkit and an Eye-One Display 2 monitor calibrator.

Cites are listed below and more information and registration can be found by calling toll-free 888.439.4403 x200 to speak with seminar coordinators and register by phone.

Philadelphia, PA – Nov 7
Baltimore, MD – Nov 9
Boston, MA – Nov 14
New York, NY – Nov 16
Toronto, ON – Nov 28
Washington, DC – Nov 30
Chicago, IL – Dec 5
Detroit, MI – Dec 7
Kansas City, MO – Dec 12
Minneapolis, MN – Dec 14
Dallas, TX – Dec 19
Los Angeles, CA – Jan 9
Portland, OR – Jan 11
San Francisco, CA – Jan 16
Seattle, WA – Jan 18
Columbus, OH –Jan 23
Charlotte, NC – Jan 25
Nashville, TN – Jan 30
Atlanta, GA – Feb 1
Secaucus, NJ – Feb 6
Denver, CO –Feb 8

For a color workflow to really work, you need to get others on board throughout the process. One way to get everyone working together is to bring them with you to the seminar.

Take your design team, bring along your boss, invite key clients or send your sales, client relations and IT staff. Groups of four or more are invited to register for only $250 per attendee. This discount is available by phone at 888.439.4403 x200 for any combination of seminar cities.

hp Photo Influencer Program

Douglas Kirkland and David Saffir
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It is always a pleasure working with hp Photo Influencers Douglas Kirkland and David Saffir. Xrite and hp contracted COLORCRITICAL services for the purpose of training on the new Z2100 and Z3100 Series Designjet Printers. We all met up at the DFA Lab to discuss digital print workflow with these new printers.

In thi shot Douglas and David were discussing the quality of the black density in David's image of a night scene in Tel Aviv Israel. Douglas was commeenting on the quality of one his famous images of Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cookoo Cookoo's Nest.

Thanks Douglas and David for a wonderful day!

Color Management for Photographers - UCSD Extension

Color Management for Photographers
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Sign Up! If you have been having trouble understanding the complexeties of digitial color reporduction then this seminar will set you straight. It's hands on with access to fast computers and digital printers from Epson and hp. You will also have the ability to use the latest color measuring devices by Gretag Macbeth. In this short but intense "workshop" we go over the necessary fundamentals of color so missing in todays instruction. We also have the necessary equipment and means to produce quality color managed from capture to print. The workshop dates are convient for even the businest schedules. We meet for three hours from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm on Friday September 22, then for a full day on Saturday September 23 and then finish it up one week later for another full day of instruction September 30th. This is by far the most cost effective means to get quality instruction and hands on experience with color management. So please, sign up!

i1 Share - encompus orange

i1 Share - encompus orange
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Getting the right color can be a massive challange. Here is a screen shot of i1 share in action to solve an everyday problem one may have getting the Pantone equalivalent of a measured paint swatch. The situation is that we needed to have Pantone color that was a close match to the color of our walls, in fact we wanted the color of our walls to match our business cards and our website. So we started the process by measuring the color of our walls and getting a L*a*b* value in i1 Share. Share then gave us the closest Pantone Coated color Pantone 158C. i1 Share will also give us a CMYK or RGB mix for a given ICC Profile. The power of this is vast and it is a free download from Gretag Macbeth. Of course the real power comes from the i1 and the complete Pantone library. So the next time your in our studio or on our website check to see our color match between our business card, the color of our painted walls, and our website.