A Note About CS5
If you have a previous version of the software, don't worry! Although we're teaching Adobe® Creative Suite® 5, our instructors will point out which features are new and which aren't.
So whether you're using CS5 or its predecessors, our classes will meet your needs.
Class Description
skill level specifics
This class presumes some basic familiarity with the Creative Suite applications to resolve color matching issues that users of these applications encounter. This class does not presume famililarity with color management vocabulary or procedures, just a desire to get colors to match. If you have a need to know more, or just want your monitor's view to match your prints, we'll take care of the rest!
Does your monitor show you color as it is, as it will print, or something else entirely? Do all your applications treat color in the same way? How can you ensure that colors specified in Adobe Illustrator will output the same as those in InDesign or Photoshop? In this class, we become conversant with the language and procedures of managing color throughout the Creative Suite.
Even if your specialty is just one application in the Suite, it is valuable to know how the pieces fit together so you know for what to ask your vendors to supply, or what to hand off to those "downstream" in your workflow.
You don't have to be a geek to understand color management! Although color geeks are invited, this class is for production artists, graphic designers, and photoshop jockeys who need predictable color output.
- The pieces of the puzzle: equipment, terms, and options
- Choosing a standard or set of standards
- Configuring your software: Color Settings presets and customization
- Choosing a standard or set of standards
- Calibrating vs Profiling
- Soft Proofing
- RGB or CMYK? Both? Neither?
- When applications play poorly together
- Color mangement vs color correction?
- Acrobat as the great leveller
who should take this class?
- You! If you want consistent, reliable color from input to output
- Designers who need to proof on their own printers and "talk color" with print vendors
- Photographers who want to control color with ICC Profiles
- Printers who want to know what their photographer and designer clients are talking about
- Those trying to get in touch with their inner geek