Color Management: A Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designers

by John Drew, Sarah Meyer

New in Paperback! Color Management shows how to implement color as a practical form of problem solving. It is a consolidated resource, arming designers with an understanding of how to communicate with and manage color in all its aspects and applications; subtractive and additive; pigment, CMYK and RGB; 2-D and 3-D; still and motion. Sensitivity of pigments to light and air and the stability of inks are also detailed, as is the human factor, through issues of color legibility and the physical and psychological effects of color. In its depth and breadth, it is a unique body of information.

Genres: Design, Art

224 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

Reviews

[Erika Mulvenna · Rating 2 out of 5]

A difficult book to read, both visually distracting and unorganized ideas and facts. Each page is divided with the top two thirds providing the bulk of the information and the bottom third filled with notes and supporting information. It's difficult to know what to focus on with this busy, overcrowded layout.

[Jayme · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought this book would provide practical approaches to color management in a Prepress setting (color profiles, different printing techniques and what to expect) but it was very disorganized and difficult to follow. Lots of lovely images though...

I certainly wouldn't recommend it unless you're totally infatuated with every minute aspect of color, in a completely disorganized way. LoL Perhaps I completely missed the point of this class, but it wasn't what I expected, nor what I'd hoped it would be and I'm taking it out on this textbook. Sorry.

[Mike]

Not recommended as a book for color theory as it applies to designers in general because this book seems to cover color theory as it applies to printing and the processes of a printing press and it does it in a crazily disorganized way. But the pictures are cool :O)

Yay, though. It was a library book.

[panji_ijnap · Rating 3 out of 5]

dari segi pewarnaa emang keren. tapi sayang banget ga diajarin sifat-sifat bentuk/garis.

[Madi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very interesting presentation of color theory and how it is adapted for marketing purposes.