The Best-Selling Color Space Books of All Time

This book explains current color technology for electronic imaging at the system level, including tools for color image processing, tools for digital image processing that affect image quality, and applications.Contents:. - Color Space. - Color-Mixing Models. - Regression. - 3D Lookup Table with Interpolation. - Cognitive Methods. - Color Space Transformation Techniques. - Sampling and Quantization. - Resolution Conversion and Scaling. - Digital Halftoning. - Color System Overview. - Color Input Devices. - Color Printers. - Continuous-Tone Printers. - Color Display Systems. - Projectors.

All the tools you need to create the full range of Visual Basic(r) color graphics applications. Expert Rod Stephens provides you with everything you need to add advanced graphics to your applications in this in-depth introduction to graphic programming with Microsoft Visual Basic. From images using as few as 16 colors to "true-color" applications that use more than 16 million, he shows you how to create the full range of color graphics applications. You'll learn how to use Visual Basic controls to create impressive graphic effects without having to buy expensive add-on products.

This book/CD-ROM package also explains how to integrate imaging, animation, and two- and three-dimensional graphics into an application. And you'll find the tools to manipulate color images, overlay one image on another, build scrolled windows, and much more. The Second Edition covers:. * New API functions. * Bitmap image morphing. * New algorithms for hidden surface removal. * Print preview with multiple pages and scales. * Image processing, including high color and true color. * Examples of controlling animation using simulation. * New examples that demonstrate shape-distorting transformations. * New examples of fractals and tilings. * Gouraud shading, Phong shading, and texturing. * Ray tracing speed improvements. * Ray tracing for new kinds of objects. The CD-ROM includes:. * More than 400 complete, ready-to-run example programs. * Pictures to use with the example programs. * Images generated by the programs. * Color images of many of the figures from the book. * Source code for all example programs from the First Edition.

Gamut mapping algorithms, implemented by color management systems, are an integral part of the color reproduction process. By adjusting the colors with appropriate algorithms, gamut mapping enables original colors to ‘fit’ inside differently shaped color gamuts and authentically transfers images across a range of media.   This book illustrates the range of possible gamut mapping strategies for cross-media color reproduction, evaluates the performance of various options and advises on designing new, improved solutions. Starting with overviews of color science, reproduction and management, the text includes:.

a detailed survey of 90+ gamut mapping algorithms covering color-by-color reduction and expansion, spatial reduction, spectral reduction and gamut mapping for niche applications;a step-by-step example of a color’s journey from original to reproduction, via a digital workflow;a detailed analysis of color gamut computation, including a comparison of alternative techniques and an illustration of the gamuts of salient color sets and media;a presentation of both measurement-based and psychovisual evaluation of individual color reproductions;an overview of alternative approaches to gamut mapping proposed by the ISO and the CIE including an analysis of the building blocks of gamut mapping algorithms and the factors affecting their performance.Color Gamut Mapping is a comprehensive resource for practicing color and imaging engineers, scientists and researchers working in the development of imaging devices, software and solutions.  It is also a valuable reference for students of color and imaging science, as well as photographers, graphic designers and artists.