MoC – Masters of Color. Advanced Color Workshops for Professionals

MoC – Masters of Color

Advanced Color Workshops for Professionals

MOC – Masters of Color is our deep‑dive training program for professional audiences such as OEM integrators, software developers working in color, and media professionals in print, packaging, and DV (Display‑Video).

The curriculum is organized into four skill levels—starting with color basics, moving through professional application, then advanced application, and finally addressing developer‑specific needs.

MOC is designed to give trainees the color understanding and practical skills they need to perform professional tasks in their respective fields.

Workshop content is customized for each audience’s focus and needs, and it can be dynamically adjusted across all four levels at any time. Both theoretical instruction and hands‑on tutorials are combined to maximize knowledge transfer and to produce lasting learning and competence growth.

MoC Workshop Skill Module Overview

Target Audience:

OEM customers like as

  • Printing system manufacturers
  • Manufacturers of Peripheral color and Capturing Devices
  • Advanced Professionals / Reproduction Responsibles
  • Print Service Providers

General

  1. Understanding the Necessity of Color Management
  2. Terminology of Color
  3. Understanding CM (Color Management) Concepts
  4. Understanding CC (Color Control/Process Control) Concepts
  5. Understanding Pressroom Management Requirements for successful CM/CC
  6. Understanding General UCM / ICM / DCM (Upstream, Intermediate, Downstream CM)
  7. Color workflows in Prepress (ICM)

Introduction in Color Metrics

  • Spectral Reflection/Transmission / Colorimetry / Deltas
  • References NIST, ANSI,
  • Technical Colorimetry vs Perception
  • Color Vision
  • Chromatic adaptation
  • Metamerism
  • Standard observers
  • Colorimetric spaces vs device spaces
  • Application Examples for Colorimetry
  • Illuminants and light sources
  • Florescence in Brightened Printing Substrates
  • Measurement Modes (Print Specific M0, M1, M2)
  • Measurement Geometries (Gonio, Spherical 8/0°, 0/70°, 45/0°)
  • Fading Effects (Ink Dry Back, Light Fastness, Chemical Fastness)

Introduction in Color Control Metrics (Print)

  • Densities / TVI / Gray Balance
  • References ISO 5-2, 5-3, ISO 13655
  • Application Examples for Color Control Metrics (CCM)

Hardware/Sensoring/Capturing

  • External Data sources (CGATS, RGB, Named Colors)
  • Radiometry/photometry/spectroradiometry/tele- spectroradiometry
  • Math of conversions

Typical Challenges to Master in Practice

  • Device Calibration
  • References NIST
  • Color constancy
  • Degree of Metamerism/Index
  • Observer Metamerism
  • Field size Metamerism

Understanding differences between Measuring and Capturing

  • Spectral measurement (Single point, wide band spectral capture)
  • Colorimetric 3/5/7 band approximation (colorimeters)
  • RGB capturing (Cameras, Scanners)
  • Multi-spectral cameras
  • Densitometers (Filtering and Standards)
    Ref: ISO 5-2, 5-3
  • Densitometric Approximation from colorimetric or RGB data

Technical real-word challenges

  • Device Calibration
  • Inter-instrument Agreement
  • Aperture size. Influences in repeatability, mesurment quality
  • Global, spectral white references NIST, BAM
  • Referenced and unreferenced External Data Sources

Display specific real-world challenges (optional)

  • RGB, RGBW, LCD, LED, OLED, MLED
  • Narrow band emmission and Observer Metamerism
  • TRC, Gamma, EOTF (Electro-Optical Transfer Function)
  • Display calibration, Native White Points
  • SDR, HDR, (sRGB as general consumer/playback standards)
  • Linear vs. Gamma conversion Workflows (Linear standard in HDR production, gamma for playback)

Print specific Real-World Challenges (optional)

  • FWA Fluorescend Whitening Additives
  • Colored Substrates
  • Surface roughness and Absorbance Factors. Influences in non-linear Colorimetric, Densitometric and Ink-Amounts
  • Critical Print Evaluation Environments vs. POS, Consumer environments (Metamerism)
  • Standardization in print. (Reverse CM – reconstructing defined printing condition vs. Forward CM – device specific profiling)
  • Signage (Displays in daylight or undefined indoor conditions)

Advanced OEM/Integrators

  • Color Data Exchange Formats (CGATS, CxF)
  • ICC profiles (Input, output, abstract, links)
  • 3-D Cube formats (GPU)
  • n-D Hypercubes
  • Interfacing (Device+Vendor Capture Software -> Exchange Format -> Processing)
  • Open, Available Software Options, Libraries (lcms, colour, opencolorio…)
  • …Integration libraries/methods/best practices

Precision and Accuracy in Colorimetry

  • Thermochromism
  • Geometry of illumination and vieweing
  • Reference white calibration
  • Polarization
  • Linearity
  • Bandwidth
  • Correcting spectral data
  • Corrections to be taken in practice

Color Order Systems

  • Munsel
  • Natural color system (NCS)
  • DIN system
  • OSA optical society of Ameriica
  • Hunter-Lab system
  • Why to use/why not to use color order systems

Professional Color Management and Output Preparation for Display/Video Applications

  • 3DLUTs and LUT Creation
  • Color Spaces and Output Adressing Ranges in Video
  • Observer Metamerism
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