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Color Management Part 12: Introducing ACES
ACES is a hot topic. But it’s not that easy to answer the simple question: “What is ACES?” And...
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Color Management Part 11: Introducing OpenColorIO
OpenColorIO is a free, open source, industry standard plugin for color management. But if After Effects has a built...
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Color Management Part 10: CM using After Effects built-in system
After Effects has had a full color management system built-in since the release of CS4, in 2008. The basic...
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Color Management Part 9: Workflow Theory
The concept of a simple color managed workflow isn’t too difficult to understand. People working with video software are...
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Color Management Part 8: Colorspaces
A colorspace is the basis for color management. By itself, the concept of a colorspace isn’t too difficult to...
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Color Management Part 7: Introducing Gamma
For many After Effects users, gamma is something you adjust in the levels and exposure plugins, but it goes...
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REACTION!!! Re-write After Effects from scratch???
Should Adobe re-write After Effects from the ground up? Earlier this week, that’s what Wren from Corridor Digital tweeted....
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Color Management Part 6: Understanding the CIE 1931 diagram
In Part 5 we started to look at the CIE 1931 Chromaticity diagram, the distinctive rainbow tongue that pops...
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Color Management Part 5: Introducing CIE 1931
Anyone who’s ever looked up color management – especially using Google – will have seen the funny, multi-colored tongue...
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Color Management Part 4: Maxwell’s Spinning Discs
Have you ever stopped to think about where RGB values came from? We all use digital color pickers every...
