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Common Photographer Workflows |
Creating a new camera profile and processing a batch of pictures
In this workflow, you first use the Input Profile Assistant to guide you through the steps of making an input profile for your camera. Then, using the new profile as the source, you can convert a picture, or a batch of pictures, to a destination color space. Depending on the intended use of the pictures, that destination color space may be a particular RGB color space, or a CMYK color space for printing and publishing uses.
The input profile that you make can also be saved to disk for future use. Details
Processing a batch of pictures using a supplied or previously-made profile
You may wish to simply process a batch of pictures, without making a new camera profile. This may be because you have a previously-made profile that you want to use; or, you may wish to process using a standard color space as the source, such as sRGB or Adobe RGB (1998). Details
Embedding a profile in a picture without processing
With this workflow, you get the benefits of ImageMapper's custom profile creation for your camera – while leaving the actual selection of the correct output space and the processing of the pictures to a color production professional later in the process.
Embedding a source profile actually adds the profile information to the image file. The profile information is carried with the picture, removing guesswork and ambiguity about which profile to use as the source profile for later processing. When the image needs to be converted for output at a later stage, a technician can simply use the embedded profile as the source profile. Details