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 instalments, 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 packaging and TV adverts, 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.
Converting Colour 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.
Comparing Colour Profiles
Ever wonder why when you convert an image from RGB to CMYK, the colour appearance can be so dramatically different?
One way to understand why this happens is to compare the colour space gamuts of different devices (such as a display and a printer). You can do this by using the ColorSync Utility.
