Colorist Society Fellow Charles Poynton, CSI, will be hosting a new course, Math & Colour Science for Colourists (MCSC). The course begins March 10.

Charles is also offering monthly subscriptions to his technical notes under the title Poynton’s Vector.

Registration and details on the course Math & Colour Science for Colourists are available here:  http://www.poynton.ca/courses/mcsc

Material is distributed, the course is hosted, and payments are made, at    https://charles-poynton-community.circle.so

Subscriptions to Poynton’s Vector are available here: http://www.poynton.ca/courses/pvt0

A summary of previous Technical Notes are available for free here: Poynton’s Vector, issues 1–18 (PDF format, 1 MB).

Notes from Charles on his new course:

Many practising colourists are accomplished in using their colour grading systems; however, there are no textbooks that cover the math and science of grading, and available training courses have incomplete – or worse, misguided! – coverage of these topics. Grading of commercials can be done completely visually; but in my opinion, efficient, successful long-form grading requires a solid colour pipeline from DoP to distribution, therefore requires knowledge of colour science and math. In this course, I will fill-in the deep fundamentals.

Starting Tue Mar 10, I’ll present Math and Colour Science for Colourists, in twelve, 90-minute online sessions: one session weekly, across three months – so, 18 hours of course time in total, equivalent to about 2.5 workdays.