[argyllcms] Re: Color theory book suggestions
- From: "Alan Rockwood" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "alanrockwood2000@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 21:24:33 -0800
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.
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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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