There’s a lot of advice out there about getting accurate colour from your digital images when printing, but what about when your pictures are projected using a digital projector?� It’s frustrating when an image that’s striking on screen or in print looks washed out and under-saturated when thrown up onto a projector screen.

Some digital projectors are capable of colour management in the way that you’d normally work with printers, but these still tend to be the expensive high-end models.� Here’s a couple of tips for colour management with your average common-or-garden projector:

• Most projectors will respect the sRGB colour space, but the Adobe 1998 space has a much wider colour gamut that many projectors can’t handle. � So if you know your images are going to end up projected, it’s worth making sure that they’re saved with the sRGB space embedded.
• Powerpoint is often used to run presentations - and this will respect the colour spaces embedded in the images that form part of the presentation.
• If you use the same computer-and-projector combination on a regular basis, it’s worth taking the time to set up the colour management.�� You can’t use hardware tools like Gretag Macbeth calibrators, but you can get good results with software tools like Apple’s Calibration utility (you’ll find this in the Display section of System Preferences) or Adobe Gamma on a Windows machine.