Class Info

  • Date: TK
  • Meeting Info: via zoom at link here

Topic

Color by the Numbers: Workflows and Devices for Consistent Color

Objectives

  • Understand what color calibration is and why it is important in our industry
  • Learn about two methods to calibrate a monitor
  • Become familiar with the Pantone Color Matching System to maintain a brand color across Color Spaces and Subtrates
  • Learn how to set up a professional studio for consistent color with standardized lighting, neutral surrounding colors and monitor hoods.

Activities

As a Review of last week’s lecture and discuss, watch the Khan Academy’s Pixar’s Color Science Videos and take the Quizzes:

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar/color/color-101/v/color-science-1

and review the RGB model:

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar/color/color-101/v/color-2

Then, we will go over the following links:

Pantone Color Institute

https://www.pantone.com

https://www.thoughtco.com/use-spot-or-process-colors-1077446

We will be going over the Pantone Color Bridge today as well as learning how to calibrate a monitor using the calibration software in the Mac operating system.

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We will review today the brand site for UCONN. which demonstrates how the principles we have been discussing are applied to a brand. We will also look a little bit at other companies with a strong brand color.

Below is a list of the resources we will be reviewing during class today.Regarding UCONN Branding:

http://brand.uconn.edu

uconn-visual-brand-colors(2) UCONN-Color-Guidelines(2)

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/light/additive.html

Monitor Calibration Resources:

Visual Display Calibration Assistant on Mac

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/colorsync-display/colorsync_1.htm

http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-calibrate-your-macs-display–mac-47072

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/colorsync-display/colorsync_1.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-OZUuqr5E
A Color Munki Colorimeter tutorial
Spectrophotometer Device in Action

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Lab/Critique

Today we will be doing a critique of our Classes Visual Quote Projects. Students will each present their concepts via zoom to the class as a group. These critiques will be interspersed in between our Discussion Topics.

To-Do After Class

See Assignments/ Week Seven