Issues

The physical stimulus that causes a color perception can be measured by straightforward physical methods, but predicting the perceived color is much more complex.

Because the devices jn an electronic imaging system represent color in different ways, getting them to communicate in a manner that preserves color fidelity and is transparent to the user is a challenging task.

A good 35‐mm color negative has the equivalent of 300 million binary bits of information. If you can capture all that visual information in digital form, you can retrieve or transmit it in an instant and manipulate it at will.

Everything from the physics of light generation to the human factors of color perception must be considered in their design.

Digital color printing exploits modern computational capabilities to give greater control and repeatability than does analog printing. Soon high‐quality color reproduction may be brought to the desktop.