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Colour my swatches…

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Digitip 093 – Adobe Creative Suite 4. Building a swatch set from an image
Updated: 5-Jan-2010: Added Video Tutorial at end of transcript
During our InDesign Trivia night at the Perth InDesign User Group in December, we had some fun with colours in InDesign.
Here’s one of the scenario’s we used: So you’re working on a layout in [...]

CMYK, RGB, HSB, LAB, Pantone…

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Thank you very much to those of you who attended this afternoon’s “colour alphabet soup”  Adobe Seminar  
Please find below the links to the web-references I provided on the start slides as well as some additional book references and a link to the Adobe Swatch Exchange file that contains lots of “clean” CMYK colours.  [...]

Colour Management

Monday, January 21st, 2008

As someone who has Real World Color Management by Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting and the late Bruce Fraser on the shelf. A publication I highly recommend for anyone interested in learning about “all things colour”. It’s great to see that Chris Murphy has written Colour Management Essential Training. According to Amazon.com’s write-up:

Kuler

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Adobe Labs has done it again with Kuler. A Flash based colour theme selector allowing for colour scheme creation based on choice of colour and rule. Rules consist of analogus, monochromatic, triad, complenatary, compound, shades or custom colour scheme creation.  Incidently “Kuler” is an anagram for “Kleur”, which in Dutch means “Colour”.

Adobe Colour Management Module

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Adobe Labs have pre-released the Adobe CMM. The purpose of this release is to provide users with the ability to set up consistent colour workflows that include non Adobe applications.

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