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Colour Management Introduction 1 Day - London
Level:
Introduction
Duration:
1
Day - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£275 + vat
What is there to learn about colour? Join our colour experts and save your business time and money by implementing a colour-management strategy for all your files. We give practical advice to help photographers and designers make their compositions shine.
Theory and practice combine as we show you how to put together a workflow that produces consistent colour results across all your files. You will learn about profiling monitors, RGB and CMYK colour spaces, and PDF and ISO standards. During the course, you will be allowed to practise with your own personal examples. A perfect way to put your new knowledge to good use and to improve your own workflow.
What is there to learn about colour? Join our colour experts and save your business time and money by implementing a colour-management strategy for all your files. We give practical advice to help photographers and designers make their compositions shine.
Theory and practice combine as we show you how to put together a workflow that produces consistent colour results across all your files. You will learn about profiling monitors, RGB and CMYK colour spaces, and PDF and ISO standards. During the course, you will be allowed to practise with your own personal examples. A perfect way to put your new knowledge to good use and to improve your own workflow.
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Colour Management Introduction 1 Day
Course Details
This 1-day Introduction course will help to explain the time-consuming, expensive, and often confusing business of colour management. We have designed the course to give you, as the file creator/handler, the grounding you need to standardise and improve the way you work with colour. By understanding and implementing a colour-managed workflow, you will save time and money and ensure the best reproduction of your files. You will also improve your confidence in working with such managed files, as well as the confidence your clients have in you.
Our course often appeals to photographers, designers and printers, many of whom share valuable insights into the whole workflow and how colour-management decisions affect others. There are a maximum of 8 places for this course and the structure is flexible depending on the knowledge and specific needs of the group. We make time to address individual problems within the context of the day, so feel free to bring your own files and prints to examine.
We split the day into two main sessions:
- Morning: covers the basics of colour-management theory, colour settings in Creative Cloud programs, profiling monitors, RGB and CMYK colour spaces, and PDF standards. We also cover ISO standards relevant to the graphic arts, particularly 12647.
- Afternoon: more open but with a focus on practising new skills in profiling and using colour-management programs.
Our goal is for you to pick up the practical know-how required to examine your own hardware, software, and file workflow.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for image file creators, photographers, designers, production staff, and anyone for whom colour is an important part of their workflow.
You will need basic experience in using Photoshop. Ideally, you will have taken our Adobe Photoshop CC Introduction 2 Day course.
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Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Introduction- Overview of Colour Management
- Device dependent/independent colour space
- What’s sRGB, Adobe1998, LAB, CMYK, 39L
- ISO Standards 3664, 12460, 12647
- Color Munki
- i1 Pro
- ProfileMaker5
- Eye-One Match
- Why it's so important to calibrate a monitor
- Why do some screens cost £300 and others £2500
- Room lighting and how it affects the monitor
- Accurate monitor proofing.
- RIP’s & Fogra proofs
- Pantone Spot colour handling
- D50 lighting to view the print
- Set up the colour setting in CS
- Rendering Intents
- Converting RGB to CMYK
- Synchronise Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
- Input Profiles and untagged images
- 8 & 16 bit files
- Unknown RGB and CMYK colours
Outputting files- Why do colours shift when printed
- TAC/TIC
- In house printing, press, to clients, the web
- Preflighting
- Enfocus Pitstop Certification
- PDF/X-1a
- Automation
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This is not a lecture and questions are positively encouraged during the day and at the end of each session.
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training London training centre based at:
5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BHSt John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.
Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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Colour Management Introduction 1 Day - Upcoming London Course Dates
21 Aug - 21 Aug £275 + vat 07 Oct - 07 Oct £275 + vat 11 Dec - 11 Dec £275 + vat -
Client Reviews
"A day well spent with some excellent tips on dealing with pdf workflows."
Paul Adams, Schawk, Colour Management - 1 Day Introduction
"Brilliant course, very helpful and interesting. The instructor was very knowledgeable and engaging and I learned a huge amount from the course. Will come back for more software training in the future. "
Chris Tompson, Colour Management - 1 Day Introduction
"Thought course and instructor were excellent. Very approachable and enthusiastic. Good pace of learning. Would recommend. "
John Woodward, University of Liverpool, HTML5 & CSS3 - 2 Day Introduction
"It was a good starting point to learn about Photoshop and was a good relaxed informal class."
Melanie Day, Parker Hannifin, Photoshop - 2 Day Introduction
"The trainer had an excellent knowledge of product and how to apply things in a day to day situation."
Faye Purver, Mi-Case, Photoshop - 2 Day Introduction
"Brilliant day - fun and informative. Covered exactly what I needed. "
Lisa Simmonds, Penguin Books, HTML - 1 Day Introduction
"Very good, very interesting, covered all topics, very impressed!"
Mary Donovan, Lumley Ltd, QuarkXPress - 2 Day Introduction
"The tutor was fantastic! I feel I now have the skills I need for my current role and increased confidence. I will be coming back for the next level!"
Phil Power, Microsoft PowerPoint - 1 Day Introduction
"Considering I have never used Photoshop before I have come away with a brilliant set of new skills that will not only help in my current job but also going forward in my career. Our trainer was a positive, enthusiastic and patient course leader and I have thoroughly enjoyed my two days on the course."
Jourdan Kenny, Trendsetter Home Furnishings, Photoshop - 2 Day Introduction
"I found the course very informative. I learnt a great deal in the one day which I will now endeavour to incorporate into our processes."
Ian Steer, The Stationary Office, Acrobat - 1 Day Intermediate
£275 + vat
Next Dates:
21 Aug £275 + vat
07 Oct £275 + vat
11 Dec £275 + vat
Over 15 years of providing certified Colour Management training courses UK wide
5/5 Stars
Very informative and helpful for our brand projects going forward.
09/04/2026
5/5 Stars
Very informative, thank you!
09/04/2026
5/5 Stars
The trainer made a great point to relate the info to our personal working space, very useful
01/11/2024
5/5 Stars
Malcolm was very knowledgeable and I learned a couple of few bits which would certainly help me with some branding work in the future.
01/11/2024
5/5 Stars
Very in depth and informative. Technical subject matter explained well and made easy to understand.
08/03/2024
5/5 Stars
Super informative day looking at the subject in depth and going from general to considering specific issues. Instructor was prepared to be flexible and react to the knowledge that was needed and was happy to try and solve issues on site.
21/09/2023
4/5 Stars
Very detailed. Good ability to specialise content based on questions. Few IT hitches but generally worked well sharing screen and having all the files ready on the desktop. Looking forward to reading over the post-course files etc.
03/12/2021
4/5 Stars
interesting and full of useful tips. Thank you!
03/12/2021
4/5 Stars
Very interesting and informative. Some things maybe a little beyond my full understanding but opened up a lot of avenues to think about in how we approach colour management and with some great pointers as to how we can review how we work
03/12/2021
5/5 Stars
Xchange & Malcolm are fantastic! Highly professional, very knowledgeable of any question I had towards colour management & ICC Profiling. Fanatstic!
22/10/2019
Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Digital Learning Materials 
Authorised Course Certificate
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the London Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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