Photographer/trainer David Harradine is launching a new two-day seminar series focusing on colour control, which will tour major cities in Australia and New Zealand between 27 June and 4 August.

May 3, 2006: Photographer/trainer David Harradine is launching a new two-day seminar series focusing on colour control, which will tour major cities in Australia and New Zealand between 27 June and 4 August.

The first day covers Total Colour Management how to achieve a colour managed workflow, while the second day deals with colour management across all applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. The seminars are available separately, although attendees can save money by attending both days. Attendance for both days will cost $A480 (inc. GST) or $NZ436.37 (no GST payable). Single day attendance is $A265 or $NZ240.91. Seminars are fully catered and a full set of note is provided.

Topics covered on Day 1 include:
– How and why profile based colour management works;
– Understanding the roles of RGB, CMYK and LAB;
– Monitor choice, calibration and testing procedures;
– sRGB Vs Adobe 98 Vs ProPhoto RGB and beyond;
– Optimal viewing conditions for the colour accurate work place;
– Profiling of Scanners and Digital Cameras;
– Assigning and Converting profiles, which to do and when;
– Targeting various output devices for accurate colour;
– Removing the guess work with soft proofing.

Topics covered on Day 2 include:
– Colour settings across all CS2 applications;
– Maximum flexibility with placed artwork;
– Transparency previewing and flattening;
– Colour managing Vector Graphics, Spot Colours and Duo-Tones;
– Optimising one and four colour Greyscales* Preserving all editable elements in InDesign;
– Producing the best PDFs for a variety of output conditions;
– Checking your PDFs to ensure all elements are going to print as they should.
For full details of dates and venues, visit www.whack.com.au/training/current.html.