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Colour Management Photographers who do their own colour image editing in the digital darkroom tend to have a love/hate relationship with colour. They use colour as their way to express creativity, and they love what they are, able to express through colour. They capture light on film or with digital sensors, but they do so much more than capture the light. They control that light through various lenses, filters, editing techniques, and printing methods. Nothing provides more satisfaction for the photographer than to use all the tools at their disposal to blend the palette of colours into a beautiful image. <more> |
Rendering Intents In a colour-managed workflow, images will need to be converted from one profile to another for various reasons. During such a conversion, colours in the source profile may not be available in the destination profile. Colours that exist in both profiles can be converted quite easily. The out-of-gamut colours need to be dealt with more carefully. The rendering intent determines how the colour conversion is performed.<more> |
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ICC Profiles Profiles are a major component of any colour management system. They are what actually make it possible to produce prints that match what you see on your monitor or produce scans that accurately reflect what is contained in the piece of film or print you are scanning.<more> |
PS (Colour) Settings Setting up photoshop for a colour managed workflow begins with the "Colour Settings" dialog. Getting the color settings right, at the beginning, will help you get the most from using Photoshop. <more> |
Getting the best from Photoshop
Have you ever wondered why the image you see on your monitor screen never quite matches the print that comes out of your printer or you get from your digital photo lab?
The science of matching the colour representation of your digital camera, film or flatbed scanner, monitor and printer has had a few books written about it. One of my personal favourites is "Color Confidence: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Color Management" by Tim Grey. After reading the information within these pages I would recommend the book for a much greater understanding of the subject.
I will also post some links to other web sites that may help with the understanding of this difficult subject.