[argyllcms] Re: Color theory book suggestions
- From: Giacomo Catenazzi <catecate@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:42:01 +0100
You can check these recommendations from ICC:
http://www.color.org/faqs.xalter#wh4
http://www.color.org/faqs.xalter#m4
cate
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Alan Rockwood <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I bought two books on color management:
>
> Color Management by B. Fraser, C. Murphy, and F. Bunting
>
> Color Confidence by T. Grey
>
> After having read large portions of those two books I feel like I know
> less now than when I started.
>
> I exaggerate a bit, but seriously, although I did learn some things from
> those books, for the most part I found the discussions in those books to be
> rather confusing. For what it is worth, I would not recommend either of
> those two books.
>
> I realize that your question was specifically about color theory, but I
> figure that color management has enough overlap with color theory to be
> relevant, particularly since a number of the topics you listed are on
> topics from color management.
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 11/3/14, Marwan Daar <marwan.daar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Subject: [argyllcms] Re: Color theory book suggestions
> To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, November 3, 2014, 8:42 PM
>
> chapter 11 of this book
> has a very readable account of the original
> psychophysical experiments underlying the CIE
> chromaticity space.
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Radiometry-Photometry-Optoelectronics-library/dp/0890066787
>
> János Schanda also has a text
> (he wrote one or two chapters, and others
> contributed to the other chapters), which has a
> chapter on color
> management. I found this
> book challenging, although it was my first text
> that I've read on color science.
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Colorimetry-Understanding-System-Janos-Schanda/dp/0470049049
>
> I had to read chapter 11 of
> McCluney's text before I was able to
> understand chapter 3 of Schanda's text,
> which dealt with the same material.
>
> Marwan
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Despite having spent a few years
> experimenting with monitor
> > calibration
> on my free time, I still feel like I'm missing
> fundamental
> > knowledge about color
> workflows in general, leaving me confused about
> > some things.
> >
> > I feel like I need to read a good thick
> book that would cover the
> > theory of
> color workflows in great detail. Specifically, I am
> > interested in a book that would cover the
> following topics and their
> > implications
> in great depth: colorspaces, white point, illuminant,
> > chromatic adaptation, ICC, rendering
> intents, color spectrum,
> > metamerism,
> standard observer, gamma, gamut (especially gamut
> > mapping), contrast, deltaE, and just about
> anything else that could
> > possibly be
> related to the reproduction of colors on TVs and computer
> > displays, for video and static content. My
> background is software
> > engineering.
> >
> > Does such a book
> exist? I tried some of these keywords on Amazon but
> > didn't find anything interesting. It
> seems most books on color theory
> > are
> aimed at artists and don't really cover the deeply
> technical side
> > of things. One of my
> secret goals in life is to be able to fully
> > understand and explain all values of
> collink's -i option without
> >
> breaking a sweat :)
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions!
> >
> > .
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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