Welcome to the world of colour.
Whether you’re a designer or printmaker, photographer or filmmaker, or just about any kind of creative pro who deals with visual material, you face the daily challenge of getting your colours just right, of making them at least as rich as those you see in the world around you. This section of the Pro site is designed just for you.
Explore these pages to learn how you can build an efficient and seamless managed workflow for virtual colour proofing. It’s simpler than you think.
Find out what colour experts — including Jody Turner, James Victore, Petter Ringbom, Matias Bilbao, and Russell Brown — have to say about their favourite colours and how they use them.
Get some insights on how human beings react to colour and some pointers on how best to communicate with colour from colour guru Leatrice Eiseman.
Read artist and author John Paul Caponigro on colour theory, colour analysis, and how you can see and render colour more accurately through colour graphing and gauging saturation.
Get tips on how to make the most of colour tools from both Apple and third-party companies.
And more. Bookmark this section and come back often. We’ll be updating it regularly.
Caponigro on Colour:
Simultaneous Contrast & The Temperature of Colour
In his latest installments, renowned fine artist John Paul Caponigro discusses the nature of contrast — light and dark, warm and cold, saturated and less saturated — and homes in on the temperature of colour.
Read “Simultaneous Contrast” and “The Temperature of Colour” to make of the most of your colours on your Mac.
Sarajo Frieden:
Colour Never Sleeps
Artist Sarajo Frieden — whose work has appeared in magazines, cookbooks, CD pakaging, TV commercials, to name a few — has this to say about colour:
Colour is about relationships.
Colour has mood, temperament.
Working with colour is a wonderfully intuitive process that never ends.
Image Editing in ColorSync
The ColorSync Utility in Mac OS X Tiger can be used to modify an image file. You can use it to add effects, change the colour space, resample the image, or correct the colours and brightness. Here are a few examples of you how you can use the ColorSync Utility.
Converting Color Values
When selecting colours for a project that needs to reproduce colour consistently regardless of delivery format (web, print, dvd, etc.), use the ColorSync Utility to ensure that the colours being specified do not shift too drastically when converted.
