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This is where it all begins. The migration of color photographs from one device to another commences when you capture an image with your digital camera. It continues when it gets transferred to your computer's hard disk. Next it moves up to your computer's monitor. After any edits are made (and saved back to the hard disk), the image is sent to the printer.

While digital cameras, computer monitors and desktop printers all address color using the same RGB "language" called color, each of these devices express that language with a slightly different dialect.

Since each of these devices interpret color differently, it is imperative that you understand the differences in the dialects and know how to negotiate them.

That's what Accurate Color is all about-- teaching you how to safely transition your images from one device to another and through their respective color territories, while retaining as much of the "accurate color" as possible.

The image on the right probably looks OK to you,
but I was there, and I assure you, this picture
doesn't portray the charm and warmth of the
open air lobby as I remember it. Move the cursor
over the image to the right
and you'll see what I'm talking about.

This photo was taken with my wife's point-and-shoot camera using the camera's "automatic" settings. As you can see when viewing the edited photo, there
was plenty of color information hiding under a rather unremarkable original camera capture.

The simple adjustments required to brighten up this original photo took no more than a minute to perform. I'll show you how to bring clarity and new life into all
of your lackluster camera images.

Copyright © 2009 Herb Paynter/ImagePrep Consulting LLC
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