Planning - Organizing of a photographical studio

ProVision is under constant development, expanding its co-operations and network. Its long-term experience ensures total solutions on the planning, the organization and the well functioning of photographical studios issues, through:

• Place assessment
• Place designing and changing
• Light study
• Construction supervising
• Choosing equipment (Cameras, lenses, accessories, software, hardware)
• Training Equipment
• Installation of PCs

Image Processing - Color Management

• Solutions - suggestions
• Service providing (Monitor - Printer calibration)

Color Management

What is it?
Color management is a useful method of controlling and standardizing the reproduction of colors from the original input (a scan or digital capture) to the eventual output (a printed page or website), via the intermediate devices (designers monitors, and proof prints). In an ideal world that purple car in your photo would look the same shade of purple on all these devices, and those lime green boots would appear the same all the way from photography to page. Color management is meant to make it easier for this ideal world to be a reality.

How it works
Color management relies on small files called ICC profiles. (ICC stands for International Color Consortium, the body that devised the specifications for color management; it includes big guns like Apple, Adobe, Kodak, Linotype Hell, etc.).
These profiles describe the way that any particular color device interprets or reproduces colors in relation to an agreed scientific standard. What it means is that the profile will nail down the meaning of that shade of the purple vest, and will give a recipe for the particular device that it describes to reproduce that shade of purple, (or as close as the device can get).
Profiles can also be embedded into color image files, to describe the colors that they are representing in real-world terms. The ICC agreed universal methods for converting color data from one profile to another.
Virtually any color input device (camera or scanner) can be profiled (but see below for the limitations on camera profiling) and any reliably consistent output device (printer, press or monitor) can be profiled too.
So if the digital camera file has a profile built into it, and the ink-jet printer, the designer's monitor, and the printer's proofing press each have accurate profiles, that shade of the purple car is going to look the same on all of them. And so will the lime green boots!