70-641 Color Reproduction and Management

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

In today's competitive advertising world, the accurate reproduction of color in various media is both a challenge and a necessity. This course examines the issues related to color reproduction and the methods by which consistent color appearance can be maintained across a variety of traditional and electronic media. Topics include: the physical nature of light and color, the perception and measurement of color; the capture, separation, and manipulation of color images. Color reproduction is studied in the context of many media including print, video, cinema, and the Internet. The course contains a laboratory component consisting of a series of in-depth exercises in Adobe PhotoShop giving students an opportunity to apply color correction and image manipulation techniques, and to become more adept at using this important software tool. Open to undergraduates of all class years.

Prerequisites: none listed

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