Color Management Implementation in Digital Photography

With the rapid development of digital camera systems and image processing techniques, digital photography becomes well established and comparable to analogue photography, both in price and image quality. Digital cameras on the market today have a great potential to become the powerful tool for capturing images for use in all demanding fields, so many professionals started using digital technology. But, it is often the case, that it is necessary to spend a lot of time for visual editing and making color corrections in various software applications. In this research some ICC color management techniques were used and tested to investigate the quicker ways to achieve digital images with improved color reproduction accuracy, without visual editing. A testing procedure for characterizing digital camera is described. This testing procedure is target-based, thus providing objective measurement of quality. The special color reference target for digital camera characterization was developed, applied and tested. The results show that using proposed methodology, the workflow efficiency and color accuracy can be improved.