Canon "Digital Color Management Guidebook" Book with portable Color Chart and Gray Card - for users of Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras including Digital Rebel and a Canon Pixma Pro Printer such as the PIXMA

by Canon

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• ASIN: B000UX7CQ2
• Item model number: 0101W312
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,099 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2007

Product Description

Color management is the single most effective way to ensure consistency in the digital workflow. This guidebook serves as a practical introduction to a color-managed digital photography workflow, and is intended to make this process simple and easy. In addition to reviewing the basic principles of color generation and color spaces, the book explains the equipment needed for a "digital darkroom," and studies actual color management techniques that will help you produce incredibly accurate color prints. To take the greatest advantage of this 33-page guidebook, it is recommended that the user possess a Canon EOS digital SLR camera equipped with Picture Style (an EOS 5D is used throughout the guide), a PIXMA series printer (a Pro9000 is used here), and a computer with Canon's Digital Photo Professional 3.0 and Easy-PhotoPrint installed. Descriptions in the guidebook are based on usage of Adobe RGB as the color space. All this is complemented by a portable Color Chart card and Gray Card printed at 18% density that can be used to properly calibrate your camera's white balance and your software color profiles.

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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy for the color chart, October 10, 2007

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T. Dollear "tdollear" (NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon "Digital Color Management Guidebook" Book with portable Color Chart and Gray Card - for users of Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras including Digital Rebel and a Canon Pixma Pro Printer such as the PIXMA (Electronics)

This book is basically designed (as far as I can tell) to get you to buy a canon printer. The gray card is somewhat functional but the color card is an "example" to give you an idea of what a real color card would do.

Plus it was $5 to ship.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A little disappointed, December 14, 2009

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Peter A. Belanger "Philosophypeter" (Dekalb, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon "Digital Color Management Guidebook" Book with portable Color Chart and Gray Card - for users of Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras including Digital Rebel and a Canon Pixma Pro Printer such as the PIXMA (Electronics)

I bought this to have a cheap gray card, but after getting it I saw that it said that the card was too thin and to use thick cardboard behind it to block the light. on the other hand, one can simply fold the card over and use the booklet itself for that. something to bear in mind before ripping the thing off.

3.0 out of 5 stars Be Careful, December 8, 2011

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Mike Chaney - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon "Digital Color Management Guidebook" Book with portable Color Chart and Gray Card - for users of Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras including Digital Rebel and a Canon Pixma Pro Printer such as the PIXMA (Electronics)

This is a nice guide book, but be aware that it is not an absolute solution to matching your monitor colors to your printer. It is a helpful guide in showing you concepts and providing ideas for color match up, but in the end, you use your eyeball, camera skills, and monitor limitations to determine whether your monitor colors match those on the color sheet.