June 2023
Color Management Professional®: Fundamentals offers the latest in color theory and applications in color, providing a strong educational foundation for color managing a graphics workflow. It is the perfect foundational course for any technical practitioner interested in a comprehensive understanding of a color managed graphics workflow.
Color Management Professional Fundamentals Certification
Date: June 13-14, 2023
Location: LIVE ONLINE (REMOTE)
This Printing United Alliance (PrUA) authorized workshop is essential for those seeking more consistent, predictable and repeatable color.
Our CMP Certified Instructors will present 2 days of live and interactive sessions going over the latest in color theory and applications in color. Learn from the industry’s top instructors, Alder’s own Dan Gillespie and Bill Owen, and walk away with a new level confidence and skill, and earn your Color Management Professional: Fundamentals Certification.
This is an online, on-demand training course, and is one part of a larger program of Color Management Professional Courses
This workshop is a prerequisite for taking an online exam to assess your knowledge. Passing the online exam with 80% proficiency qualifies you for professional certification and inclusion in the Idealliance database of certified experts. Upon successful completion, you will be certified for 2 years.
Proudly display your certification on your LinkedIn profile, in your email signature, on your website, or wherever else you desire. (Please note, if you do not recertify at the end of your certification period, your certification is no longer valid and may not be displayed.)
Print and digital media production professionals and managers
Meet your instructors, class policies, and overview course agenda
Overview, why’s and hows of maintaining color throughout the process, what is calibration, branding requirement considerations, Delta E tolerancing, realistic expectations of tolerances, and goals and realized value.
The Spectrum, primary colors – additive, and subtractive color spaces, RGB and CMYK, CIE Lab, LCH, gamut, rendering intents, visual representation of Delta E
Setting up applications within workflows, design and creative, creating a print-friendly workflow, limitations of the print process, can it be reproduced in 4/C, spot colors, special purpose color spaces, ECG, PrintWide, etc.
Proofing devices, measurement devices, RIPs/drivers, substrates, inks, consumables.
Calibration methods, monitor color and calibration, flatbed scanner and camera calibration.
Overview of printing systems, maintenance before calibration, calibration of devices, profiling basics and targets, introduction to G7 and it’s value, visual and data evaluation of results.
Lighting conditions, evaluation of color (reinforces and expands from previous section), effects of visual metamerism
Color management pyramid, establishing baseline for repeated state, control targets to verify performance, trouble-shooting issues.
How To Guide for Monitor Calibration
PDF download of all presentation slides plus a helpful glossary
Free access to online certification test (up to two attempts)
Our custom Color Management Software and Tools list with links to white papers, video, measurement tools, and more
Director of Technical Services
Alder Color Solutions
Color/Workflow/G7 Expert
Alder Color Solutions
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