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
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