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Color Management is for Wimps

Published by: Ken Rockwell       10-08-2006        Read Complete Article
Article Summary

"Too many marketers of color management tools have done too good a job.

Sadly, many impressionable photographers believe the ads and seminars and waste too much time and money getting crummier results than if they left everything alone.

I shoot and print, never waste any time with profiles or spaces, and everything looks great.

Color profiles and color spaces are for dweebs. You don't need them. I'm a dweeb, I invented the world's first dedicated digital color-space conversion chip back in 1990 with TRW, and even I don't bother color managing anything except my monitor. "....Read Complete Article




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