Color Management, what is it? and what you need to know
Let’s start with what color management is not. Color Management is not proper color, adjusted color, or anything to do with how an image looks in reality.
Color management refers to the transfer of a specific color from one device, to another. What does this mean? Let’s take an example of a head shot. Color management gives you the best shot at making sure that the color of the eye in the portrait in camera, on the monitor, printed, or displayed on a projected are all the same hue and luminosity (it’s the same color). That’s it. Now the question becomes why wouldn’t it the same? The answer is that there is very little chance (almost none) that two devices will produce the same color even close to each other.
I’ll try to make further posts on this subject and what you can do to make sure that you’re images are handled exactly as you want them to.
