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PPW 2025: The Panel Returns!

Dan Margulis — Sun, 04 May 2025 16:16:46 +0000

The PPW Panel—which served as a command center for tens of thousands of adherents to my suggested workflow—is back. The previous panel went through five major releases, beginning in 2011. New features were added each time, but the updates were also needed because the goalposts were constantly moving as to what types of plug-ins Photoshop […]

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George Tscherny 1924-2023

Dan Margulis — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:46:03 +0000

Last week we lost perhaps the last titan of the early digital era, a man, according to the headline on the New York Times obituary, “whose graphic designs defined an era.” I’m unable to endorse that phrase, because, like all such great artists, George Tscherny had an individual touch that nobody could copy with complete […]

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The 2023 Progress Award

Dan Margulis — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:20:48 +0000

My retirement was interrupted last month by one of my life’s happier experiences. In Williamsburg, Virginia, I accepted the Progress Award for 2023 from the Photographic Society of America. PSA has been around for 84 years and is likely the most prestigious such organization in our field. They state, “The Progress Award recognizes a person […]

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The Colors of the Pandemic Year 2022

Dan Margulis — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:39:54 +0000

“HINT: It’s inspired by the natural world’s ability to adapt and regenerate.” That was a major paint manufacturer, announcing that it would shortly name its 2022 Color of the Year. We tend to associate the term Color of the Year with Pantone, but many companies offer competing nominees, trying to predict the trends of the […]

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Books available for educational donation

Dan Margulis — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:26:58 +0000

Educational and cultural institutions whose students and patrons could make use of my two latest books now have an opportunity to obtain them in quantity at no charge, courtesy of the members of the Applied Color Theory group. This offer is good for January only and involves the books Modern Photoshop Color Workflow and On […]

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Ed Benguiat 1927-2020

Dan Margulis — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 11:19:46 +0000

On October 15 we lost the most prolific type designer of the second half of the twentieth century, Ed Benguiat, after 92 years of enjoying life. Having designed hundreds of faces, he was well adapted to any style. Most of his works were in the style of the 70s and 80s, which is not popular […]

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Test Your Correction Skills!

Dan Margulis — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:40:25 +0000

If you’d like to check out how your color correction skills stack up to those of others, including some top professionals, my online discussion group recently finished a series of case studies in which group members were asked to submit their versions of some images chosen to be at least mildly challenging/interesting. We did one […]

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Chevreul Meets Margulis: Now Available!

Dan Margulis — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 16:16:10 +0000

My update of M.E. Chevreul’s classic text On the Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colors is finally available online. It was printed in late January; members of my discussion group were able to order it direct from the pressroom, which they did in surprising quantity. Our first shipment to Amazon sold out in four hours. […]

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Announcing a Modernized Classic

Dan Margulis — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:42:01 +0000

This is a pre-announcement of a book that is about to come on the market. You can’t order it for a few days yet, but you need to be on the lookout for the offer, because it’s going to be time-limited. After that, it will be available only on Amazon, which sometimes runs out of […]

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Applied Color Theory Group Finds a New Home

Dan Margulis — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:16:27 +0000

The Applied Color Theory list, which discusses matters of interest to my students, friends, and colleagues, has been operating since 1999. For almost the past twenty years it has resided at yahoogroups. After many years of deterioration, yahoogroups recently decided it would now become e-mail only, no images allowed. We have therefore moved the group […]

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