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ICC Links
Below are some helpful and informative links on Color Management, ICC profiles, etc. from third-party suppliers.
The Best
- Heidelberg Color Publishing Solutions Color Manager Manual, a very comprehensive and colorful intro to color management from the ground up in the tradition of the "...For Dummies" books.
- Publish Magazine, September 1998, "High Profile Color," a comprehensive overview of profiling and ICC workflow, includes large table of color profile device makers.
- X-Rite The Color Guide, a 2 MB PDF file of the "acclaimed" color guide and glossary for the graphic arts industry.
The Rest
- Agfa ColorTune Home, product overview, including some brief background info and graphics on the benefits of profiling your entire workflow.
- Agfa Secrets of Color Management page, a description of this book-length white paper on color management, available for purchse from Agfa.
- Apple ColorSync Home
- Apple ColorSync HiFi Workflow, general summary of ColorSync/ICC-type workflow, from scanner to monitor to output.
- Adobe Support "Separating Images into Hexachrome Color Space in PageMaker 6.x," discusses Kodak CMS, which is included with PageMaker.
- ColorWeb, a color management consulting firm that offers seminars, books, and other resources on color management.
- Imation True Color Fidelity Home, includes a link to a 19-page PDF white paper on standards-based color management, and an HTML adaptation of Understanding Color, the old 3M booklet you may have seen.
- International Color Consortium, standards specifications, but little on application usage or workflow.
- Publish Magazine, February 1999, "How to Avoid Shocking Color in Photoshop 5," discusses selecting the new color space preferences in Photoshop 5, which have a dramatic effect on color output.
- Onyx Graphics PosterShop "Profiling a New Media in PosterShop Profiler," discusses linearization, ink limits, etc.
- Pictographics Tech Support (Candela ColorSynergy product), includes some educational QuickTime movies about color gamuts, rendering intents, etc.
- Quark Support, "Color Management Modules"
- Quark Support, "Color Profiles," describes how to apply ICC profiles in QuarkXPress 4.0.
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