RapidStudios's Tip 7: Understanding colour
Understanding colour Colour can be quite tricky, every device, due to how it’s designed and what components have been used, records and represents colour slightly differently. Colour representation is also very objective, most monitor and printer manufacturers all invest a lot of resources on getting their colour representation to “look nice”, moving away from a more accurate reproduction. We all prefer a nice looking image to an accurate image. Common problems when taking and printing digital photos: White balance: If your camera is unable to properly select the right “white balance profile” images come out with a yellow or orange or blue tint. You can try and choose a white balance profile in the camera’s settings yourself, or try correct the photos in Photoshop. Blow out: Print is toner dots on white paper. If there is a pure white area in an image no dots are placed, only the white paper is left, looking naked and crisp. You can fade smoothly between 100% dots and 10% dots, b