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Introduction
Welcome to "Color Workflows for Adobe® Creative Suite 2." This guide is intended for
professionals in the visual communications industry who need a reliable approach to
achieving accurate and consistent color. Whether you are a new or experienced user
of Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe InDesign®, Adobe GoLive®, or Adobe
Acrobat® Professional, this guide provides the knowledge you need to effectively use
new Adobe Creative Suite 2 features in your color workflow and achieve accurate and
consistent color.
It is often difficult to achieve accurate and consistent color because the two color models
most often used to specify color appearance-RGB and CMYK-are device-specific or
device-dependent. A monitor, scanner, and printer each produce a different color given
the same set of RGB or CMYK numbers because the color depends on the characteris-
tics of each device. For example, the color produced by a monitor depends on the color
of its red, green, and blue filters or phosphors. The color produced by a printer depends
on the type of paper, how it absorbs ink, and the colors of the cyan, magenta, yellow,
and black inks. The end result is that a scanned image doesn't look like the original, and
the final copy printed on the printing press doesn't look like the image you saw on your
monitor. These differences can lead to hours of lost productivity and revenue because of
numerous color corrections and trial and error prints.
When devices-such as a monitor, scanner and printer-receive the same color values, each device
produces a different color.
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