Direct to Sintra Prints: 5 Great Ways to Use Them
Due to durability, direct to Sintra Prints can be used in various spaces. From corporate retail displays to custom wall art inside your home and/or backyard.
Seeing Red – Use Valentine’s Day Color Theory for Perfect Professional Color Printing!
As Valentine's Day approaches, think about the color red and what it means. From passion to demanding attention, it is the most popular color around the world.
Jeff Davis Brings Out Color with Photoshop in his First Friday Show
Using modern technology like Photoshop along with his interest in mathmatics, artist Jeff Davis brings out color in his First Friday show.
What’s You Professional Color Printing IQ?
We've been having fun with this quiz around the shop. Maybe we are just color fanatics who obsess over professional color printing, but it is interesting to see how you score. This color quiz was put together by X-Rite Photo, the makers of color management and calibration software and equipment. The lower the number, the [...]
Behind the Scenes Look at Pantone
The Pantone system is the recognized industry standard of color matching. This video gives a behind the scenes look at the Pantone process.
Meet an artist that hears color
In childhood Neil Harbisson was diagnosed with a condition called achromatopsia, which means he can only see the world in black and white. Despite this fact, Neil went on to pursue a fine art degree at the Institut Alexandre Satorras, where he was given permission to use only black, white and their intermediate shades in [...]
Color on the brain
It's amazing when you start thinking about a subject how many things seem to pop up. I've run across a couple of blog articles posted this week that focus on color theory in design, and wanted to share them. Smashing Magazine today posted the first in a 3 part series entitled 'Color Theory for Designers'. [...]
A wealth of digital photography tutorials
I quite literally Stumbled Upon this website today. Sean T. McHugh on his site, Cambridge in Colour, posts a quite and extensive and comprehensive list of digital photography tutorials. He covers topics from understanding your camera, to Photoshop techniques, to how we perceive color, and many more. Lots of technical data, but written in a [...]
Color deconstructed
If you are interested in learning more in depth about RGB and color workflow, I have two good resources for you. The first is posted on photoshopessentials.com titled RGB Color and Color Channels Explained. The article breaks down how Photoshop 'sees' color and translates each color in to a number equivalent that represents what our [...]