Are you happy with color in your photos? This is ultimately the driving force behind color management for most people. If you take photos with your camera, print them, give them to friends and family, and everyone thinks they look great, you probably don’t need color management. The only problem here is that many people who used to think their prints looked perfect say they didn’t know what they were missing after they tried a true color managed workflow. It is very difficult to “imagine” how your photos could look better on screen or in print without seeing the difference. If you strive to get the best reproduction of your photos and you are open to the possibility that they can be improved, read on.
Do your photos look very close to the same (color-wise) on screen compared to your prints? A common problem with non color managed workflows is that there are often differences in color when you compare a print to what gets displayed on your monitor. Everything might look reasonable until you run across that one purple sweater that just doesn’t look right in print but looks fine on screen, or the orange beach ball that looks fine in print but looks too yellow on screen
