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Colour Management Introduction 1 Day - Manchester

Key Course Details:

Level:

Introduction

Location:

Central Manchester

Duration:

1
Day - 10am to 5pm

Price:

£275 + vat

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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
Hardware/Software for profiling
- Color Munki
- i1 Pro
- ProfileMaker5
- Eye-One Match
Monitor Profiling
- 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
Proofing
- Accurate monitor proofing.
- RIP’s & Fogra proofs
- Pantone Spot colour handling
- D50 lighting to view the print
Adobe CS
- 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
PDF creation
- Preflighting
- Enfocus Pitstop Certification
- PDF/X-1a
- Automation
Q&A’s
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Location Details

This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:

Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2AP

Piccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).

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 Manchester Course Dates

19 Dec - 19 Dec £275 + vat
Client Reviews

"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
"A day well spent with some excellent tips on dealing with pdf workflows."
Paul Adams, Schawk, Colour Management - 1 Day Introduction
"The trainer was good and worked at a pace which can be followed easily. The trainer also provided additional information which will allow me to make an informed choice when developing websites."
Sital Kerai, Park High School, Dreamweaver - 2 Day Introduction
"Good trainer, learnt the things I needed to learn, very helpful, thanks very much."
Jane Wraight, AXA Investment Managers, Powerpoint & Excel - 1 Day Introduction
"The day was very informative and well presented with ample opportunity to ask questions throughout the day. "
Christine Shaw, Swansea University, Colour Management - 1 Day Introduction
"Fantastic one to one tailored course that fitted perfectly with my needs and has allowed me to secure and expand my Photoshop knowledge."
Ramsey Matthews, Whitley Bay High School, Photoshop Introduction - 1 Day
"Exceptionally useful course designed around exactly what I wanted to get out of it, so was tailored perfectly to my needs."
Emma Samuel, Gaz de France
"The instructor was very friendly and knowledgeable. He was happy to answer all questions and he made sure that we were confident with his responses."
Richard Graves, Experian, Captivate - 2 Day Introduction
"Thank you for the InDesign training which both Paula and I found extremely efficient and a well taught."
Pippa Coffin, James Glancy Design
"Really useful content presented in an understandable yet comprehensive manner. Covered a lot without being overwhelming. Fantastic and very helpful training and great tips on shortcuts too!"
Carley Willis, UKTI, InDesign - 2 Day Introduction