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Over the gamut and through the woods is the latest monthly column over at Steve's Digicams which examines the topic of color management.
'It seems that the longer you stick with a particular hobby or profession, the more complicated things get. In digital photography, once you get past that initial thrill of being able to view, edit, and print your own photos, you start to become aware of subtleties like the fact that certain colors on your monitor don't match what is printed. You do some research and it seems that there is something called "color management" or "ICC profiles" that can fix your problem, but the whole concept seems almost like snake oil, or worse... some foreign language only spoken by rocket scientists. Before long, you find yourself trying a bunch of downloaded files (profiles), messing with rendering intents, turning on/off something called "black point compensation", and instead of a good color match between your monitor, scanner, printer, and other devices, you become lost in a forest, screaming for help just hoping someone will hear you. Is it really possible to understand this "color management" concept to the point where you can at least determine if you need it and if you do, exactly what you need to make it work? Well, we're going to try. We'll try to deal with concepts instead of underlying math where possible so that we don't get caught up in the "rocket science" of it.'
Posted by Darren in our Tips category on August 02, 2004
