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In the ‘good old days' you looked at your slide and that was the color.

True, you could influence color by your choice of film stock. Kodak was neutral, Fuji exaggerated the blues. The discerning photographer might also choose a particular color lab that was known to run slightly blue. But basically what you saw was what you got.

Nik D200 - Composing
© Manfred Bail
When making prints the printer could also influence the final color but, assuming that a color match was the objective, both Cibachrome or R-type prints looked basically the same as the original.

That was due in part to all stages being within the same RGBRed green and blue the three primary colors and color space used by film and monitors.color space. The problem for digital workflow is that

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