The three most used color spaces in photo editing
You are going to hear the terms color spaces and color profiles when moving into your editing career. I am going to give you a simple, non-technical breakdown of them as I use them; how deep you want to go after that is up to you:
- Color spaces: Color spaces are different ways color is represented using math – for example, RGB, CMYK, and LAB. Each of these models uses math to represent color differently.
- Color profiles: Color profiles are what you assign or download. As an example, if you were to print your image on a Canon printer, you would download the Canon printer color profile; it would convert your colors into something the printer can match as an equivalent.
We will go over the three most common color profiles in this section. While it is outside the scope of this book to describe the technical terms of each in detail (people have entire manuals on color theory and grading), we have included what you...