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■ PUTTING COLOR MANAGEMENT IN CONTEXT
For our purposes, color management simply involves calibrating the monitor,
choosing an appropriate workspace, and utilizing printer profiles at output. You do
not absolutely need anything more exotic than Adobe RGB as your workspace. If you
shoot RAW, as you should, then there really is no absolute need for a custom camera
profile because the RAW data can be processed into a standard workspace in ACR.
The calibration steps we’ve just gone through determine how your color is rendered
into the workspace. You can think of the workspace as the color definition that deter-
mines what the various RGB number values look like. Once a file is tagged with a
workspace definition or profile, you can track the colors in the image through editing
and finally into a print.
We will examine various color management issues as they come up throughout
the rest of the book.
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