Now it’s time to present your pictures to the watching world. You’ve learned how to produce accurate color and tonal values in your photos, and now it is time to see the results in both electronic versions and in print. This final chapter is critical because print and digital versions each utilize color in (you guessed it) different ways.

Since accurate color has been the goal of this entire book, the final preparation for each usage must be handled very carefully. Once you learn and practice these simple output formulas, your images will display their full color and tonal range.

All the work you have put into your photographs will be meaningless if you can't produce accurate prints. There are many ways to output digital images, both as display images and in print. Display options include Web sites, social utilities such as Facebook, personal blogs, e-mail, iPods, and digital picture frames. The print options include inkjet printers, photo kiosks, on-line digital photo books, and professional large format printers. In this chapter are a series of 13 color images that you can use as color-accurate examples of what these images should look like coming out of your printer. Click HERE.

Throughout this book I have detailed how to use various software tools to produce accurate color in your digital images. In this final chapter I outline the simple production workflows that will deliver great results when printed or published on variety of output devices. This includes preparing images for the Internet. The issue of Internet image size is addressed HERE.

Correct image preparation can be boiled down to two production stages. During the first stage, all image preparation (regardless of it's final disposition) requires certain common tone and color issues to be addressed. The culmination of this first stage produces a "master" image. The second stage is where images are uniquely prepared for individual physical devices and electronic purposes. From your one master file, individual adjustments are made to prepare the file for its intended output.

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