Colour Managed Workflow

We now had a fully functional studio. Here is how we use this studio to reproduce a painting:

1. Mount the painting so that its centre is at the same height as the camera lens
2. Adjust the distance of the camera from the painting such that it nearly fills the frame
3. Set timer mode on the camera
4. Take the photograph by pressing the shutter release
5. Copy the resulting RAW file from the camera to the computer
6. Use S7RAW to create a 48 bit (16bpp) RGB TIFF from the RAW file
7. Use Adobe Photoshop to:
   1. Assign the (Ultra Quality Absolute Colorimetric LUT) camera profile to the TIFF file
   2. Convert the image from the camera profile to the AIM RGB Pro colour space
   3. Print Preview the image:
      1. In the Color Management options:
         • Set the Source Space to the Document Space (AIM RGB Pro)
         • Set the Print Space Profile to the appropriate (Ultra Quality LUT) printer profile
         • Set the Print Space Intent to Relative Colorimetric
         • Set the Print Space Black Point Compensation off
      2. In Page Setup, check the printer and printer settings
      3. Print the image
8. Insert the sheet of paper into the manual rear feed of the printer

Congratulations! (Maybe) you have successfully created an extremely high quality reproduction of your picture!