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Practical guides for understanding color profiles, image metadata, and print production.

Color Profiles

What Is an ICC Color Profile?

The complete guide to ICC profiles: what they are, how they work, what's inside them, and what happens when they're missing.

sRGB vs Adobe RGB vs Display P3

Comparing the most common RGB color spaces. When to use each, the real differences, and common mistakes.

CMYK Profiles for Print

FOGRA, GRACoL, SWOP: understanding CMYK profiles and why your print shop cares about them.

Image Metadata

What Is EXIF Data?

Everything your camera stores in your photos, including settings, GPS, timestamps, and serial numbers, plus the privacy implications.

Image DPI for Print

What resolution your images need for print, how to calculate print size from pixels, and why 72 DPI is a myth.

IPTC vs XMP Metadata

The two editorial metadata standards: what each stores, how they overlap, and which takes precedence when they conflict.