Colour Spaces in Photography
Michael S Tooms · 2015
A first exposure to the range of colour spaces used in photography is likely to lead to some confusion; there is a plethora of defined colour spaces which are often referred to in the literature without reference to their history or relevance to the situation being described. This chapter sets out to delineate these colour spaces into categories related to the photographic workflow. Though formally referred to as source colour spaces, those adopted for image capture often continue to be used in subsequent elements of the photographic workflow. There are four areas within the computer in which the processing of the colour signals requires the definition of a suitable colour space: RAW file processor, photographic file processor, monitor driver and printer driver. Displays are likely to become available with extended colour spaces when compared with those currently available.