Color management is one of the highest critical thing and one that has exhausted digital photographers since its begining. Most students eyes glaze over
when this topic comes up in my workshops. Interesting, but a waste of time, not pertinent to black and white, already know it all, and even too technical.

Unfortunately for the creative user, color management really is quite complex. There are reasons why there are in-depth, full-length texts devoted entirely to
this topic alone. Fortunately, for most users, grasping the entire scope of all the technical information available is not an absolute necessity.

What does color management have to do with Black and White anyway?

It is true that color management for black and white purposes just does not seem quite right. Managing your system for color, however, is actually the
truest test for black and white accuracy. If you have a completely accurate color balanced system, you are in a position to produce more neutral black
and white prints, make the best possible conversions, and assess contrast and tonality variations within an image. For the traditional photographer, this is
the digital equivalent to standardizing development variables in a darkroom workflow