Camera Owners of the Bay Area

The April meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 7:30-11:00 pm.

Color Management

Digital technology gives the photographer much better control of color but to get good results it is important to understand how color and color management work.

In this presentation we will introduce the key concepts underlying color management and discuss different hardware and software tools that are used to profile digital cameras, displays, scanners and printers. Examples and data will be presented to show that, with good color profiles, very accurate color reproduction is possible.

Dr. Jean Gascon is now retired from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories where he was a researcher and a manager. He came to Xerox PARC in 1983 from the University of Montréal where he was Associate Professor and joined HP in 1985. He has been interested in photography for more than forty years and can now pursue his passion full time.

Printing With Pictopia

Pictopia.com is the first company to offer an integrated photographic printing and online storage service that is targeted specifically for digital imaging professionals. We enable customers to upload digital images via the internet and have them printed on true photographic printers. Our market is commercial users of photographic prints from 8 x 10 to as large as 50 x 120 inches. We also provide digital asset management - users can house their large images on our servers and quickly access low resolution thumbnails for specifying print orders. Our customers include professionals in aerial photography, architecture, engineering, GIS, courtroom graphics, trade show and point of sale graphics, as well as Fortune 1000 corporations.

Mark Liebman, Pictopia’s founder and CEO, was also the founder and CEO of Vividata, Inc., founded in 1988. Over the years Vividata has created and licensed image processing, scanning, OCR and printing software and drivers to such customers as the U.S. Department of Defense, Sun Microsystems, Lockheed Martin, Disney and Dreamworks. As their first CTO, Mark also helped found Surf Communications/Tunes.com, the Internet’s first and most extensive music store. In 26 years of hardware and software engineering he has worked on 2D and 3D graphics and animation, broadcast video editing, the science and application of the psychophysics of human vision and color, scientific visualization software for oil exploration, and ASIC implementations of signal and image processing and rendering.