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?