Color Science and Digital Imaging: An Essential Guide for Filmmakers, Photographers, and Visual Effects Artists Steve Wright 9781032780528

This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects, demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should be managed from project ideation to completion.

Readers will not only learn how things work, their capabilities and limitations, but also the Color Science that goes along with it, in an accessible and informative manner. Starting in the Real World with an understanding of light and our human perception of it, the book then explores how digital cameras "see" the scene and digitize it. From the capture of these images, the Author then explores the fundamental concerns of storage, editing and managing color images, including with OCIO and ACES.

Written for the professional Photographer, Cinematographer, visual effects, motion graphics or CG artist, Editor and Colorist, this book will provide you with knowledge of the upstream and downstream technology to your job that will not only give you a competitive advantage and help you to make better images while giving you a real-world working knowledge of Color Science.

Steve Wright, an award-winning visual effects pioneer and renowned educator is the published author of two popular books - Digital Compositing for Film and Video and Compositing Visual Effects. In 2005, his attention turned full-time to educating the next generation of VFX practitioners imparting his vast technical knowledge gleaned from 30 plus years of production experience. His love of digital imaging technology and color science is the mainstay of his training website, FX Ecademy.

"This book is a treasure trove of knowledge about the technology and color science used for creating digital images. I wish this had been available when I was starting out." - Grant McKean, Senior Flame VFX Artist. London

"The author conducts the reader through a journey of the entire digital imaging pipeline providing essential information all the way. By the end of the book, the reader will have painlessly accumulated an astonishing depth of knowledge of color science." - Eberhard Hasche, Senior Color Researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Technical University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg, Germany

"The topic of color science is difficult to teach but Steve Wright has a succinct way of communicating this complex subject matter making it easy even for the layperson to comprehend. The visual impact of the animated videos will prove to be an invaluable learning tool for my courses. As an educator, I highly recommend this book!" - Shaun Peyman, Senior Lecturer of VFX at the Media Design School of Auckland, New Zealand

"As a supervisor of Visual Effects and CG artists, I see my team struggle with the issues covered by this book all the time. It will be a boon to their careers and the industry as a whole when everybody knows this stuff by heart." - Isa Alsup, Senior VFX and CG Supervisor