High quality output demands a colour managed workflow: a carefully profiled computer display, the right settings in your applications for import, processing and export and an understanding of how things work online so that your web site and your clients’ sites look as good as they can. For your printed output, colour profiles will need to take into consideration your choice of printer, paper and ink . We’ll walk you through the entire process, which starts—as usual—with the right exposure.

Unexpected colour shifts when your work appears online? Disappointing prints? Put an end to them now and become confident in your colour workflow!

Our bespoke training can include the colour management information that a photographer needs. You will understand colour spaces, whether to set your camera to shoot in AdobeRGB or sRGB, the mystery of ProPhotoRGB, what effect your camera’s colour settings have on your raw files (hint: not much!) and on your camera’s histograms, what to use when exporting to the web, sending files to clients and sending work to labs for output.

Much of this information will slowly make its way to our blog, which we update regularly with hints and tips. For example, see this article on protecting fine colour detail in Lightroom 2 by moving just one slider from its default position. You can subscribe to the blog by e-mail and receive every new article in your inbox, in full, as soon as it’s published. That service is provided by Google’s Feedburner. Or grab an RSS or Atom feed.

Both options are free. If you have questions or comments, please drop us a line or give us a call. We’re always happy to help out. If we can answer your question in the form of a blog post that helps others, we will. Mail us on develop@shootraw.co.uk or call (020) 3092 2907.