The Color Mac 1992
The Color Mac: Design Production Techniques is a 1992 book by Marc D. Miller and Randy Zaucha, published by Hayden, Carmel, Indiana. ISBN 0-672-30025-7, Library of Congress Catalog No. 92-71248. The printing line shows the scan is of the second printing.[1] The Library of Congress record gives the extent as xiv, 334 pages.[2]
It is a guide to colour prepress on the Macintosh: scanning, image editing, colour correction, four-colour separation, film recording and video output, and setting up a production environment. Miller taught at the Graphic Arts Institute of Northern California in San Francisco; Zaucha was a journeyman colour scanner operator and scanner trainer.[3] The foreword is by Howard Barney and John Stewart of Barneyscan Corporation.[4]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[5]
- Part I, The Basics
- 1 Pixels: Building Blocks of Digital Images, p. 1
- 2 Color & Tone, p. 22
- 3 Scanning: Obtaining Color Pixels, p. 40
- 4 Digital Storage, p. 50
- Part II, Image Creation and Editing
- 5 Color Spaces and Image Correction, p. 62
- 6 Basic Tools & Functions, p. 84
- 7 Digital Painting, p. 104
- 8 Merging & Collaging Techniques, p. 112
- 9 Dynamic Effects, p. 124
- 10 Filtering Effects, p. 134
- 11 Gallery of Images, p. 150
- Part III, Targeted Reproduction
- 12 Preparing Images for Output, p. 168
- 13 Producing Vectors as CT Bitmaps, p. 178
- 14 Basics of 4-Color Separations, p. 186
- 15 Production of 4-Color Separations, p. 210
- 16 Digital Film Recording, p. 236
- 17 Video Output, p. 246
- Part IV, Production Environment
- 18 Digital Files, p. 252
- 19 Hardware & Software, p. 260
- 20 Creating a Work Environment, p. 266
- Appendices: A Color Charts, p. 276; B File & Image Size Charts, p. 280; C Hardware Charts, p. 284; D Math Charts, p. 288; E Filter Charts, p. 292; F Quick Production Checklist, p. 300; G Glossary, p. 304
- Index
What this book does not contain
[edit | edit source]It is about colour reproduction, not the Macintosh's colour hardware. It has no service procedures, monitor alignment data or electrical information; Apple's display service manuals are in Category:Apple Service Source, for example Apple Multiple Scan 15 Service Source. The hosted scan has 333 PDF pages, fewer than the printed xiv + 334, and skips a page at several chapter openings.
Related pages on this wiki
[edit | edit source]- Macintosh 16 Color Display Service Source and Macintosh 21 Color Display Service Source list this book as related reading.
Download: The_Color_Mac_1992.pdf (68.1 MB)
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Marc D. Miller and Randy Zaucha, The Color Mac: Design Production Techniques (Hayden, 1992), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 3-4).
- ↑ Open Library, The color Mac: design production techniques, record OL1749366M, from Library of Congress catalogue data. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- ↑ Miller and Zaucha, The Color Mac, About the Authors (PDF p. 7).
- ↑ Miller and Zaucha, The Color Mac, Foreword, pp. ix-x (PDF pp. 10-11).
- ↑ Miller and Zaucha, The Color Mac, Contents, p. xi (PDF p. 12).