Color Science and Digital Imaging : An Essential Guide for Visual Effects Artists, Filmmakers and Photographers - Steve Wright

Color Science and Digital Imaging

An Essential Guide for Visual Effects Artists, Filmmakers and Photographers

By: Steve Wright

Paperback | 21 November 2024

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This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects (VFX), demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should be managed from project ideation to completion.

Readers will learn not only how things work, their capabilities and limitations, but also the color science that goes along with them, in an accessible and informative manner. Starting in the real world, with an understanding of light and our human perception of it, the book then explores how digital cameras "see" and digitize the scene. From the capture of these images, the author then explores the fundamental concerns of storage, editing, and managing color images, including with OpenColorIO and ACES, the Academy Color Encoding System.

Written for professional photographers, cinematographers, VFX, motion graphics and computer graphics artists, editors and colorists, this book will provide you with knowledge of the upstream and downstream technology of your job that will not only give you a competitive advantage and help you to make better images, but also give you a real-world working knowledge of color science.

Industry Reviews

"This book is a treasure trove of knowledge about the technology and color science used for creating digital images. I wish this had been available when I was starting out." - Grant McKean, Senior Flame VFX Artist. London

"The author conducts the reader through a journey of the entire digital imaging pipeline providing essential information all the way. By the end of the book, the reader will have painlessly accumulated an astonishing depth of knowledge of color science." - Eberhard Hasche, Senior Color Researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Technical University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg, Germany

"The topic of color science is difficult to teach but Steve Wright has a succinct way of communicating this complex subject matter making it easy even for the layperson to comprehend. The visual impact of the animated videos will prove to be an invaluable learning tool for my courses. As an educator, I highly recommend this book!" - Shaun Peyman, Senior Lecturer of VFX at the Media Design School of Auckland, New Zealand

"As a supervisor of Visual Effects and CG artists, I see my team struggle with the issues covered by this book all the time. It will be a boon to their careers and the industry as a whole when everybody knows this stuff by heart." - Isa Alsup, Senior VFX and CG Supervisor


"This book is a treasure trove of knowledge about the technology and color science used for creating digital images. I wish this had been available when I was starting out." Grant McKean, Senior Flame VFX Artist. London

"The author conducts the reader through a journey of the entire digital imaging pipeline providing essential information all the way. By the end of the book, the reader will have painlessly accumulated an astonishing depth of knowledge of color science."
Eberhard Hasche, Senior Color Researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Technical University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg, Germany

"The topic of color science is difficult to teach but Steve Wright has a succinct way of communicating this complex subject matter making it easy even for the layperson to comprehend. The visual impact of the animated videos will prove to be an invaluable learning tool for my courses. As an educator, I highly recommend this book!" Shaun Peyman, Senior Lecturer of VFX at the Media Design School of Auckland, New Zealand

"As a supervisor of Visual Effects and CG artists, I see my team struggle with the issues covered by this book all the time. It will be a boon to their careers and the industry as a whole when everybody knows this stuff by heart." Isa Alsup, Senior VFX and CG Supervisor

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