A Field Guide to Digital Color

A Field Guide to Digital Color
by Maureen Stone

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Author: Maureen Stone
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-08
ISBN: 1568811616
Number of pages: 235
Publisher: AK Peters, Ltd.

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Book Review: Every Color User's Essential Book!
Summary: 5 Stars

In the age of digital cameras, printouts and projectors, almost everyone needs some introduction to color and color reproduction.

If you are a professional working in color reproduction, there are plenty of books on color engineering and computational color science - those by Phil Green et al, Stephen Westland, William Hunt are all good examples. But Maureen Stone's book has filled a long felt gap at a different level, where you need to understand the fundamentals thoroughly to get the best out of your everyday color reproduction equiptment - your computer monitor, color printer, your digital camera - what have you.

Three features of the book make it stand out: first, the selection of topics within its twelve chapters, second, the accuracy of the technical inforamation, and third the writing style. In fact, I am not sure if there is another book in the market on digital color at this level!

Ms Stone has selected just the right topics for providing a grounding in the issues of color reproduction. Her treatment of the Color Management Systems is probably one of the best at this level that I am familiar with. Color theory is complex. It is a hard-core science from one angle, an art from another angle, and an engineering discipline from yet another. The book has done a good job of summarizing the results precisely and explaining them accurately in a manner that almost anyone with interest in colors can understand.

The free-flowing writing style makes it easy to read - I finished reading through the book in about a week! And, now I keep going back to it off and on, just to confrim (or re-learn) my fundamentals.

The references and annotations to references are very useful.

This is the first book on colors for every computer user, digital camera user, color printer user and for graphics engineers.

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Summary of A Field Guide to Digital Color

The book provides the foundation for understanding colour and its applications, discusses colour media and colour management and the use of colour in computer graphics, including colour design and selection.

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