At 12:53 AM +0100 5/14/04, Campos & Davis Photos wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Steve Upton" Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:56 PM >Subject: [PRODIG] Colour Management Bits > > > > So, if you have questions, post them and I'll answer them the best I can. > >Do you know of another list where discussions about colour and colour >management at a scientific level could take place. I feel this is the wrong >place for it.
I've looked around a bit but I'm not sure I have a great answer. Apple's ColorSync list can be pretty good but it's also all over the map. People don't shy away from colour science questions there and it can be surprising who lurks on that list. I have a number of text books and have had replies from the authors of those books on that list! As mentioned by Mr Riecks, the ColorTheory list can be good. Dan Marguilis is a major critic of colour management in the past but he's pretty brilliant when it comes to image production work so you can get good information on that list. As for reading there are a few tomes that are considered necessary references. A couple of those include: "Color Science" Wyszecki & Stiles - ISBN 0-471-39918-3 - 950 pages of the nastiest color science you will ever want to immerse yourself in. All the equations, tables of spectral & other data. It's a beast, but it's good. "The Reproduction of Color" by R W G Hunt - ISBN 0863433685 - also a touchstone for color. Sixth edition is pending publication. "Understanding Digital Color" by Phil Green of the London College of Printing - ISBN 0-88362-233-5 - less technical, good overview For anyone who might have been asking about sources for my previous assertions, I offer the above books as references. hope this helps. >p.s. What is your source for the number of colours that can be perceived?You >said you had data for it and had calculated from that. I do have a data set that was calculated using human eye response curves and a number of other massaging techniques. I'm sorry that I cannot share the data but the upcoming "Pro" version of ColorThink will use it for comparisons and allow the graphing of it. (all things going well). Regards, Steve ________________________________________________________________________ o Steve Upton CHROMiX www.chromix.com o (hueman) 866.CHROMiX 206.985.6837 o ColorGear ColorThink ColorValet ColorSmarts ProfileCentral -- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
