Understanding Digital Color Resources and Links

Fundamentals of colour

Illuminants

Data for CIE illuminants D50 and D65

Color vision

Colour Vision
The Joy of Visual Perception
VisionScience

Color and design

Basic Color and Design SBFAQ
Colour Design Research Centre
White is Green

Color appearance

Quantifying Colour Appearance
The CIECAM97s colour appearance model
(final draft agreed by the CIE)

Color science and technology

Color Science
efg's Color Page

Color measurement and specification

Understanding colorimetry

How tristimulus values are calculated
The xy chromaticity diagram
Colour Rendering of Spectra
Colour difference
Density Measurement
Calculating density from spectral data

Color order systems and sample systems

CMYK Tint Charts
Munsell Color-Order System
Pantone
Trumatch
RGB Color space

Digitizing color

Charles Poynton's GammaFAQ
efg's Image Processing Page

The color original

Fair Use of Copyrighted Works
The Graphics File Format Page
Kodak: Technology - Digital vs. Traditional Images

Color conversion and separation

Adrian Ford's Colour Equations
Charles Poynton's ColorFAQ
sRGB

On-line color space converters

CGSD's Color Science Library - Color Space Converter
Colour Group interactive colour calculations

Color management

The International Color Consortium
Reference CMYK profiles
Current ICC profile format specification
Information about ICC profiles and their use
Characterization data for printing processes
Building ICC profiles: Dawn Wallner's book and source code
Code library of ICC profile utilities
Kodak data files for ISO 12640 (IT8/7.1 and IT8/7.2) targets

PostScript and PDF

Adobe PostScript Details
Adobe Technical Notes for Developers
Indiana U PostScript

Output systems

Linearize an output device

Further reading

Colour science and technology book list
Short colour bibliography

Academic

Graduate courses

MSc in Digital Colour Imaging at London Institute
MS in Color Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
MSc Imaging Science at the Colour & Imaging Institute, University of Derby
MSc Digital and Photographic Imaging at University of Westminster

Research groups

Colour Imaging Group
Munsell Color Science Laboratory
Colour and Imaging Institute
Imaging Technology Research Group
Colour Technology Forum
Ecole Française de Papeterie et des Industries Graphiques

Professional Organizations

TAGA: Technical Association of the Graphic Arts
THE COLOUR GROUP (GREAT BRITAIN)
OSA: Optical Society of America
RPS: The Royal Photographic Society
SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering
IS&T: Society for Imaging Science and Technology
NAPL: National Association for Printing Leadership

On-line tutorials

Interactive tutorials in color
Color Pro Color Course
Kodak: Digital Imaging Fundamentals
Learn more about colour imaging on our postgraduate and short course programme.

Get the book

Colour Engineering from Wiley

Colour Engineering Toolbox