Colour Resources

As a photographer, you know colour has the ability to communicate, to please, to excite, and to engage. Colour makes a difference — often a dramatic difference — in your photographs, your graphics, and your layouts. Getting colour right early in the workflow, and keeping it right to the end, is increasingly critical in the fast-paced, deadline-driven digital world. Yet photographers and designers are frequently dismayed when they print an image and the colour is different from expectations. These disruptive surprises can cost time and money and cause delivery delays and disappointed clients.

Below is a list of resources to help you learn more about working with Mac OS X and colour. Get some hints from other pro photographers about how to set up colour management workflows. View a QuickTime video about the human eye perceives colour. And more.

Articles

Video

An Eye for Color

Tips

Resources

Online Seminars

“The exact colour I see on my monitor, [my colleague] sees on her monitor, our contributing editor in Scotland sees on her monitor, and our pre-press guys see on their monitor in Los Angeles. At a digital photographer’s studio last week, I was looking at the images we just shot on the photographer’s Cinema Display. What I saw in the studio is what I see in my office. Colour is now spot on. We have dot-to-dot fidelity, from computer to press.”

— Kathryn Hansen, Dwell Magazine