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Digital Color Management
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In the ‘good old days' you looked at your slide and that was the color.
True, you could influence color by your choice of film stock. Kodak was
neutral, Fuji exaggerated the blues. The discerning photographer might also
choose a particular color lab that was known to run slightly blue. But basically
what you saw was what you got.
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When making prints the printer could also influence the final color but,
assuming that a color match was the objective, both Cibachrome or R-type prints
looked basically the same as the original.
That was due in part to all stages being within the same RGBRed green and blue the three primary colors and color space used by film and monitors.color space. The problem
for digital workflow is that 
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