Color Management Concepts

Color management enables enables colors to be reproduced as accurately as possible across different devices and media. Unlike color correction, the intention of color management is not to change colors but instead to preserve perceived colors in different situations.

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What Is a Color Space?
A color space allows people and software to communicate colors unambiguously using a numeric representation.
Color Management Workflow
Color management involves converting color values between color spaces. This conversion happens at specific points along a color pipeline.
Converting Between Color Spaces Using Connection Spaces
It is often necessary to convert between color spaces several times along an image pipeline. For example, you may need to convert several inputs from different spaces to a common working space so that they can be composited and blended, and then convert to another space for output. Autodesk Color Management uses a connection space to perform these conversions.
ACES
The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is an image interchange framework developed by the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Choosing a Working Color Space
Autodesk Color Management lets you use any color space as your working space, and supports many of the common and standard color spaces. Images are automatically converted from their input color spaces to the working space on import. In addition, some applications let you switch between color spaces for specific operations.

Parent topic: Autodesk Color Management — Supplemental Information