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Color Management

Course Code:

N1-5160

Semester:

5th Semester (Graphic Arts Technology pathway)

Specialization Category:

ΜΕΥ

Course Hours:

4

ECTS:

5

Eclass Link:

https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/GD188/

Eclass Lab Link:

https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/GD186/


Course Tutors

KARAMANI ADIGONI

SYLLABUS

Theoretical part

  • Workflow in color processing and management.
  • Color management tools and software.
  • Input profile – scanners and digital cameras. Simulation profile.
  • Color profile of PC projectors.
  • Features and profiles in the printing process.
  • Profile templates for offset printing and control systems.
  • Color conversion with color profiles.
  • Color-accurate work with CMYK data.
  • Simple workflow with CMYK data.
  • Color management with RGB data.
  • Color management with built-in profiles.
  • Department of Labor and Communication.
  • Standards and specifications in color reproduction.
  • The relationship of black with cyan, magenta, yellow.
  • UCR and GCR.
  • UCR and GCR: the importance of paper color.
  • UCR and GCR in different programs.
  • Prototype Profiles for bold, continuous form and newspapers

Laboratorial part

The laboratory part of the course includes individual exercises through special tools and software, which aim at identifying and solving the problems of digital color management. The respective parameters are analyzed and the optimal method of color processing is implemented.

ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1. Billmeyer, F. W. Jr., & Saltzman, M. (1981). “Principles of Color Technology”. 2nd Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  2. DiCosola, M. (1995). “Understanding Illuminants”. X-Rite
  3. Fraser, Β., Murphy, C., Bunting, F. (2005). Real World Color Management. 2nd Edition. Berkeley, CA, USA: Peachpit Press.
  4. Giorgianni, Edward J., Madden, Thomas E. (1998). Digital Color Management. Addison-Wesley.
  5. Homann, Jean P. (2009). Digital Color Management Principles and Strategies for the Standardized Print Production. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
  6. Hunt, R. W. G. (2004). The Reproduction of Color. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  7. Kang, H. R. (1997). Color Technology for Electronic Imaging Devices. SPIE Optical Engineering Press.
  8. Kipphan, H. (2001). Handbook of Print Media. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
  9. Kuehni, R. G. (2005). “Color. An Introduction to Practice and Principles”. 2nd Edition. Canada: John Wiley & Sons
  10. Morovic, Jan (2008). Color Gamut Mapping. Wiley, ISBN 978-0-470-03032-5.
  11. Stiles, W.S., & Wyszecki, Günter, (1982). Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae. 2nd Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  12. “Color & Quality”. (2008). Germany: Heidelberg Druckmaschinen AG.
  13. “Media Standard Print 2018”. (2018). Germany: Bundesverband Druck und Medien e. V.
  14. “PSD, Process Standard Digital. Handbook 2014”. (2012). Germany: Fogra Research Institute for Media Technologies.
  15. “PSD, Process Standard Digital. Handbook 2018”. (2012). Germany: Fogra Research Institute for Media Technologies.
  16. Teaching Course Notes

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