Dan Margulis's "Makeready" columns have played a unique role in the development of color correction technique.
In 1993, the late Tom McMillan, editor of Computer Artist magazine, proposed that Dan write a bimonthly column on desktop production issues, to be around double the length of typical magazine columns--up to six pages, if need be.
The column lasted nearly fourteen years--77 installments. It introduced many concepts that were revolutionary at the time yet have become standard in high-end retouching, such as curving to add contrast, luminosity blending, the use of LAB, hiraloam sharpening, and black-channel maneuvering. It is the only column of its kind ever to appear regularly simultaneously in two competing magazines in the U.S., and it appeared in five different translations as well.
Dan announced the end of the column's run in 2006. Sterling Ledet & Associates is proud to announce that it will, over the next few years, provide PDF versions of most of these columns--sometimes as they originally ran, sometimes in the revised form in which they appeared in one of Dan's later books. Click here to view a listing and summary of all 77 columns. The project started in 2007, with eleven PDFs being linked, including four in foreign languages. |
