Books, videos, articles on color management

[ggbutcher (Glenn Butcher)]

I wrote this a while back, after I’d figured out color management for my hack raw processor, rawproc. A reaction to almost everything else I could find that immediately launched in to technical stuff, tried to make it more about the mechanics:

Article: Color Management in Raw Processing

Color Management in Raw Processing Introduction There are two fundamental aspects of making a presentable image from raw camera data that require our attention: tone and color. From the time we step up to the scene with our camera to the presentation of a finished image, consideration of these two characteristics is fundamental and persistent through the workflow. The management of tone is probably more universally comprehended; it starts with the scene’s dynamic range and the camera’s expos…

A video using rawproc to lay flat the necessary operations to turn a raw file into a pleasing rendition:

https://youtu.be/17I-ek8IEbM

HTH