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...
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...
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...
Color Management Part 3: It’s all in the brain
In order to manage colors in film and television production, we need a way to measure them. Unfortunately, measuring...
Color Management Part 2: Newton’s Prisms
Color management may not be fun, but we once we break the topic down into small parts it becomes...
Color Management Part 1: The Honeymoon is over.
Welcome to the first part of my new series on color management. Although it’s exciting to launch a new...
Using RED files in HDR After Effects Projects
I see RED I see RED I see RED… After Effects has been able to import native .R3D files...
Is ACES right for you?
In the film days, a cinematographer had a good handle on what the final printed image would look like....
