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Converting Color Profiles: Proper Workflow?

2006-04-26 by hanson102

When I was starting to get an understanding of how color management
works, I surfed around the Internet to look for materials.  I forgot
where I got the idea but I see it as a logical workflow that until now
I see nothing wrong.

A lot of the photographers would try to edit/enhance their photographs
through Photoshop.  The common dilema is rendition of the image in the
monitor.  We often ask ourselves how the adjustments we do would look
like in the actual print.

The information I gathered was about editing/enhancing an image
according to the output intended.  This means to say that if your
output is basically Websites/Internet content, it is best to convert
your image to sRGB Color Profile first and edit using this color space
since Internet contents mostly use sRGB.

Same thing with output to print.  If I intend to print my photographs
on my Canon Inkjet Printer, then it is best that I create a profile
using the Spectro, convert the photograph's color profile to the
profile built, edit and enhance the image, save, and print.

I always believed that this is the correct workflow because otherwise,
you will not know how the colors/brightness and contrast will look
like while editing the photos in a different color space.

Is this the proper workflow?

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