CHAPTER 3

Building Display Profiles

The display is one of the most important components of the digital darkroom. Being visual people who work with images, I find it shocking that by and large, so many imaging professionals tend to skimp on their display systems or fail to implement good color management for this critical component. For the photographer shooting with a digital camera, the reality of the image is on the display. Ideally, we hope to reproduce the scene based on our artistic vision. We have our ideas about how the image should appear. Yet, without good color management in place, we have no idea if the previews being provided are an accurate visual representation of the color we hope to reproduce.

In Chapter 2 of the book, I discuss ...

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