Here you will find resources that proved themselves useful to me over time.
About photography, color and color management
- The Digtal Dog
Several technical articles about color management, digital images and Adobe Photoshop, by specialist Andrew Rodney.
www.digitaldog.net - Bruce Lindbloom's Web Site
Excellent website with lots of scientific information about color, along with useful tools for colorimetric computations, by Bruce Lindbloom, currently a systems engineer at Harris RF Communications.
www.brucelindbloom.com - Mauro Boscarol Web
Italian specialist and consultant in color management, ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) and Adobe Product Evangelist certified.
www.boscarol.com - Charles Poynton
Independent contractor, specialist in physics, math and digital imaging processing, he is author of two very interesting articles in FAQ form about color and gamma. He is also a reference in digital video and high definition TV fields.
www.poynton.com - Norman Koren photography
Photographer Norman Koren offers interesting tutorials about color, color management y digital processing.
www.normankoren.com - The Dimensions of Color
David Briggs, science Ph.D., University of Queensland, Australia, built this amazing website about every theoretical aspect (and not quite...) about color perception.
www.huevaluechroma.com
Organizations
- CIE - International Commission of Illumination (Commission Internationale de L'Eclariage). Commission who started in 1931 all the studies and experiments which lead to our current knowledge of colorimetry.
cie.co.at - ICC - International Color Consortium
Organization commited to standardize technical implementations of color management.
www.color.org
Companies
- X-Rite
X-Rite and (formerly) GretagMacbeth website. In the download area, alongside each product update, you can find related articles, white papers and FAQs.
www.xrite.com - Adobe (www.adobe.com)
Usually hard to find, sometimes Adobe has documents to address specific issues. In the following links there's info about RAW image format and the use of linear gamma.
http://www.adobe.com/productos/photoshop/cameraraw.html - Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)
A new color management system, Windows Color System, proposed by Microsoft and first implemented in Windows Vista and later OSes, promess to be "the next step" about color management systems. Whether it succeed or not, in my opinion there are good ideas in this proposal.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/color/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd372446(VS.85).aspx
Educational Establishments
- Fundación Gutenberg
The only graphic-arts professional training and research institution of Argentina.
www.fundaciongutenberg.edu.ar