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Colour Management Introduction 1 Day - Manchester
Key Course Details:
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
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
- 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 Manchester training centre based at:
Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2APPiccadilly 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 4:30pm 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
20 Dec - 20 Dec £275 + vat 17 Jan - 17 Jan £275 + vat 21 Mar - 21 Mar £275 + vat 04 Jul - 04 Jul £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
"Got everything out the course I wanted to. The trainer was great, really knew his stuff and helped to cover the areas we would be using in our jobs. Fantastic!"
Chad Doyle, Stockport Council, InDesign - 4 Day Masterclass
"Excellent training location and resources. My third course at XChange in Manchester and I can't wait to come back for more. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend XChange to friends and colleagues, and have done so on many occasions. "
Eddie Allen, South Liverpool Homes, Animate Introduction - Two Days
"Always very happy with the excellent training XChange provides and I'll certainly be coming back for more! Thanks "
Polly Cummings, DC Quants, Dreamweaver HTML Emails - 2 Day Course
"Found the course extremely interesting and tremendously useful. The instructor was a fountain of knowledge and provided great training materials to actively use. Although the course had a lot of commercial content there was so much that was absolutely relevant to the classroom. The attention to detail and excellence is quite inspiring."
John Whitehead, Hawkley High School, Premiere Pro - 2 Day Advanced
"Thanks for a very pleasant and educational 2 days. I think it was especially good because it was a small class which gave very individual training."
Nigel Hopwood, Jacob Jensen Design, InDesign - 2 Day Advanced
"Really enjoyed the course. Presented a comprehensive overview of Articulate and helped us out with any queries we had."
Chris Bateman, Glasgow Caledonian Uni, Articulate Storyline - 2 Day Introduction
"The course was really enjoyable, a lot of hands on training and relaxed and informal. Easy to get to centre."
Sigrun Karadottir, Sovereign, Captivate - 2 Day Introduction
"The instructor was fantastic - very easy going and very knowledgeable. I really enjoyed the course and will definitely look to have more training in future through XChange Training."
David Merritt, DSM Services, SketchUp - 1 Day Introduction
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Over 15 years of providing certified Colour Management training courses UK wide
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
5/5 Stars
Very good and informative
12/12/2018
Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate 
Lunch and refreshments
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the Manchester 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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