The color management that the graphic designer needs to master reads a lot of color management articles on the Internet. It is not too esoteric or too general and theoretical. There are few basic color management that can be involved in a professional graphic designer in daily work. Knowledge and application.
We mainly want to discuss with you here about the color management of a graphic design practitioner. We are not prepared to put a lot of basic principles and principles into practice. We are also not very confident in color management. We just want to tell everyone how to do it in daily design work. How to apply color management to color management.
It is mainly for everyone to establish a good work habit at work and use color management from some seemingly simple issues. For example, how to look at the monitor, how to open the picture, how to analyze the picture, how to change the color, how to print, save the picture and so on.
First, let's talk about the calibration of the monitor
Everyone needs to use the monitor. We don't discuss the brand price of the monitor. Whether it's a flat screen or a LCD screen, there's a simple truth: It's better than expensive! We can use EIZO's professional display, of course, better. Without that strength, using Apple's LCD is also good. Once again, a level of around 3-4000 can be used. 2000 yuan LCD display and flat screen, it is purely household type, for graphic design should be rarely used, but you have to say, our company used this, of course, you use, I have no opinion .
1, the display of the display
The monitor screen must not be exposed to direct sunlight or other strong light, otherwise it will accelerate the aging of the CRT phosphor. In addition, under strong light, the user's eyes are also prone to fatigue, and at the same time, the display color is not clear.
The monitor should not only be exposed to the sun, but it is also best not to be exposed to office lights. This is difficult. What if the office doesn't have so many suitable locations? The first question involved: the monitor hood!
The international standard "environmental conditions for soft proofing of screens" stipulates that the monitor must be equipped with a hood, which is to reduce the ambient light that affects the interference to a small extent. After adding the hood, the color is completely different, the contrast is improved, and the color is also pure. This is because the interference light source is reduced.
2, monitor maintenance
CRT monitors can burn out due to long-term work, as do LCDs. Therefore, it must be remembered that if you do not use it, be sure to turn off the monitor, otherwise it will take a long time, it will lead to internal burnout or aging.
If you find that the display surface is smeared, gently wipe it off with a soft cloth dampened with a little glass cleaner. Do not spray the cleaner directly on the surface of the display. Cleaning agent entering the LCD will cause a short circuit on the screen.
The above two are online display maintenance routines, as a graphic design, add one, that is, when not to touch the display directly with your fingers, fingers sweat and stains, it is easy to cause color changes, I believe we usually Have feelings.
3, the correction of the display
Regardless of what kind of display you are, more advanced displays, do not forget to correct the display, monitor correction, is to properly adjust the monitor brightness, contrast, color temperature, etc., so that the monitor can display a relatively accurate color.
Correction is divided into software correction, software + calibration instrument calibration two, of course, there are some high-end monitors with internal display hardware correction, of course, better, Oh ~