Real World Color Management, Second Edition

10. Color Management Workflow: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

We’ve been straining the analogy of profile as map throughout this book, so let’s give it one more good hefty yank. A few of us appreciate profiles, or maps, as works in their own right, but for most of us, they’re simply tools, and maps aren’t all that useful if we never go anywhere.

At this point, you probably know slightly more than normal people need to know about profiles. In this chapter, we look at where the rubber meets the road—how you use profiles with your various devices and applications to drive your color where you want it to go.

We give you the holistic overview of how your color management components interact, and describe the major principles that govern how you configure ...