Color management is important to many photographers, but it may not be as well known by those who are newer or less experienced. You may first become aware of color management when you print your images. You can do this at home or in a lab.
You have probably stumbled into the world color management if you’ve ever received prints that are dark, muddy, have a color cast, or look overexposed.
We will look at why color management is important, and why it isn’t as difficult as you may think.
All Devices are Not the Same
You are not seeing reality when you view your most recent and best image on the computer screen. You’re looking at an image that has been decoded. Your camera converted the light to 1s, then Os did some complicated calculations and saved the file. The light has an almost infinite number of colors. This is far more than a camera can capture. Therefore, the camera decodes the color in a space called ‘color space. This color space is the range of shades and tones that exist between the primary and secondary colours.
This means that your colors will be consistent if you use the same color space for shooting and printing. But they won’t. For example, your monitor needs to be calibrated. You can’t just tell your monitor to display a certain color space, without checking that the colors it displays are consistent with this color space.
In a way that is perhaps overly complex, we can see that not all devices are equal.
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