PhotoTechEDU Day 31 - Color Balance: Babies, Rugs & Sunsets

Very good talk, informative and not too technical.

I don't have major problems with color balance. Everything can be solved simply by converting the image to CMYK and tweaking the color channel curves using Photoshop.

Bot at all! The color rendering pipeline is exactly what's taking place when maniplating images in photoshop. Things like Von Kries transformation matrices and cromaticity calculations are made and used by eg the adobe rendering engine when using appropriate color spaces. The end user simply doesn't see the maths behind it.

I don't have major problems with color balance. Everything can be solved simply by converting the image to CMYK and tweaking the color channel curves using Photoshop.

CMYK is like the worst color space for image manipulation.

I think you techies don't understand color manipulation manually by hands. RGB are for novices who mostly rely on one click automatic overall corrections by computers but the finest images are the ones custom adjusted by artists using the right and exact blend of CMYK.

Waaay too technical for real world photography! I suppose if I wanted to build a digital camera, this would be required viewing.