Managing colour in the workflow

• DecreaseIncrease

By Paul Lindstorm, Laurel Brunner and Cecilia Campbell
It’s tempting to think digital colour workflow management is something new, but it’s existed since the early days of digital prepress. The difference today, is that colour management is out in the open. Instead of happening within a tightly controlled, closed environment accessible only to a chosen few, now everyone can produce colour print files. Off-the-shelf technologies such as Photoshop, standard PCs and Macs and operating systems that cooperate, have democratised colour creation and output. However the problem of accurate colour production is still a long way from being solved, because although some tools, such as Photoshop, create excellent colour files, many of them, such as Powerpoint, do not. Because all files, regardless of their colour data accuracy, find their way into a colour workflow for print output, colour workflows must still be managed. With each new generation of operating systems and software applications, colour management gets more necessary. ...cont´d

• DecreaseIncrease