18. Building Color-Managed Workflows: Bringing It All Together

And so we come to the end of our color management odyssey. You’ve learned all about the many and varied ways our eyes interact with photons to produce the sensation we call color; how we use colorants such as inks, filters, and phosphors to make our color-reproduction devices emit or reflect photons that we interpret as color; and how we use profiles and CMMs to control these colorants so that we have a better chance of seeing the color we want. We’ve also told you repeatedly that color management does only two things—if you can’t remember what they are, you aren’t ready for this chapter!

More importantly, we hope you now realize that color management is part of a bigger picture. ...

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