Get Color Accuracy in Photos
Posted: February 05, 2019
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In addition to perfect lighting, color accuracy is among the top requirements for great photographs. The conditions you have at the time you're shooting images might not always give you the best final result. Another culprit of color inaccuracy can be screen calibration. In addition to making sure your screen is calibrated, there are some post-production steps you can take to correct the colors in your images to make them reflect the original subject as closely as possible.
Karthika Gupta, photographer and contributor to Digital Photography School, explains how to achieve color accuracy in your photographs.
Next to light, color accuracy is another important element in photography. Color temperature is annoying enough to deal with in terms of camera settings and editing. You spend all this time and effort on editing your photos and making sure they match
your photography style. But sometimes the final product can be off if viewed on an uncalibrated screen. While having an accurately calibrated screen is ideal, there are still some things you can do to ensure that the colors are as close to the real deal as possible.
1. Photographing in raw
This really is key and I am a huge proponent of photographing in
RAW 100% of the time. The colors can be adjusted easily on raw files in editing software like
Lightroom, Photoshop, and others. But with jpegs, they’re already baked in. It is not impossible just harder to achieve the exact match.
In Raw files, all the original image data is preserved. In fact, when RAW files are opened in post-production software like Lightroom, a virtual copy is made and used. Edits are made in a non-destructive format so the original RAW file is always available for changes at a later stage. This is very useful when you want to edit images in different ways at different times in your photographic career.
Read the entire article,
How to Achieve Color Accuracy in your Photos, on
Digital Photography School.