Blurb Color Management Resource Center

29.03.2010 Books - Blurb 1
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Blurb’s new Color Management Resource Center is online. You’ll find video tips for using Blurb ICC profiles, using BookSmart, and making Blurb books from PDFs. It’s part of Blurb’s continuing commitment to advance print on demand quality. Catch my Blurb seminar at Palm Springs Photo...
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Getting the Best Color from Blurb

23.03.2010 Books - Blurb 5
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The image above graphs Blurb’s ICC profile inside sRGB. Graph Blurb’s new ICC profile and you’ll find something interesting. Blurb’s printers exceed SWOP (standard web offset presses) and they exceed sRGB in cool blues and yellows. What this means is you’ll get the most saturated...
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The Elements of Color – Color Equilibrium

21.03.2009 Books 0
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Josef Albers’s Theory and Interaction of Colors is considered the definitive classic on color theory from a painter’s perspective. I actually prefer his colleague Johannes Itten’s The Elements of Color. Itten’s language is exceptionally clear. How important is language? Very! Itten does something brilliant. He...
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Color Theory

06.03.2009 Color - Theory, Workshop 0
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Color theory can help describe what is perceived more precisely. It offers a language that is shared and reasonably precise. Color theory can help make perception more precise. Language encodes thought and a more precise and nuanced language can lead to more sensitive perception. Color...
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