As a creative professional, color is at the heart of your work. Accurate color that matches expectations makes a dramatic difference in reducing production costs and timetables, and in helping you generate more engaging visual products for clients. With Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther,” Apple has removed another barrier to your creativity by taking the color management capabilities of the Macintosh to an entirely new level. With Panther, it is faster, easier, and more affordable than ever to achieve consistent color.

Here’s how the advanced color management capabilities in Panther help you focus on being as creative as possible:
• Panther takes a systemwide approach to color by integrating always-on International Color Consortium (ICC) color management into every phase of the workflow: capture, edit, and output. This feature ensures that the color you capture is the same color you see onscreen and in print.
• Image Capture, an image acquisition application and framework built into Panther, automatically embeds a profile into each image downloaded from a digital camera or captured with a scanner, saving you time and streamlining your workflow. This process can be further automated using AppleScript.
• With built-in soft proofing in Panther, you never have to waste another sheet of paper or ounce of ink, and you can achieve faster turnaround times from concept to final approval.
• Printing in Panther provides advanced previewing and output controls, enhancing color accuracy and reducing the number of steps in your PDF workflow.

This Technology Tour will help you understand color management in Mac OS X Panther. It will take you from “what” to “how”—providing step-by-step examples that let you put the advanced color management capabilities of Panther into practice in your day-to-day work.

Combined with the exceptional processing of a Power Mac G5 and a bright, sharp, ColorSync-aware Apple LCD display, Panther makes color management more integrated, more automatic, and easier than ever. It’s just one more way that Apple removes the technology barriers to creativity, so you can focus on bringing your best ideas to light.

Contents
Making Color Work for You
The ColorSync Foundation
Making an Inventory of Your Profiles
Obtaining and Assigning Color Profiles
Color Workflow: The Capture Phase
Capturing Images
Managing Untagged Images
Converting to a Working Space
Color Workflow: The Edit Phase
Calibrating and Profiling Your Display
Editing Images
Soft Proofing
Sharing Soft Proofs
Creating Hard-Copy Proofs
Color Workflow: The Output Phase
Checking Color Before You Print
Faster Printing on a PostScript Printer
Printing to a Raster Printer
PDF/X Support
Automating the Workflow
About AppleScript
An Automation Starter Kit
Running Scripts
Resources
Websites
Profiling Services
Books

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