Why bother with Profiles and Color Management?
Even though color correction and color management are not the same thing they’re often confused with each other, especially by the novice Photoshop user. Explaining the difference can very often lead to even more confusion, but hopefully the following explanation will provide some help. We have already established that the color characteristics of most imaging devices tend to be unique to that device. Likewise, it’s very rare for them to be truly linear (i.e. R=G=B=Neutral). Sometimes this second characteristic is referred to as the device being “badly behaved”; with scanners and printers being good examples of badly behaved devices. Obviously, it would be extremely difficult to edit a document where a group of pixels with values of R=G=B=128 (i.e. grey) actually appeared on the monitor to be significantly non-neutral. In such circumstances color correction would an absolute nightmare. To overcome these discrepancies we usually carry out all our editing in color spaces that are “well b
