Setting Up Color Management; About Color Management - Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial

Setting up color management

About color management

Set up color management
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About color management
Color management helps you to achieve consistent color among digital cameras, scanners, computer monitors, and printers. Each of these
devices reproduces a different range of colors, called a color gamut. As you move an image from your digital camera to your monitor, and finally to
a printer, the image colors shift. This shift occurs because every device has a different color gamut and thus reproduces the colors differently.
The color gamuts of different devices and documents
A. Lab color space (entire visible spectrum) B. Documents (working space) C. Devices
Color management translates the image colors so that each device can reproduce them in the same way and the colors you see on your monitor
will be close to the colors in your printed image. All colors may not match exactly because the printer may not reproduce the same range of colors
as the monitor.
Managing color with profiles
A. Profiles describe the color spaces of the input device and the document. B. Using the profiles' descriptions, the color management system
identifies the document's actual colors. C. The monitor's profile tells the color management system how to translate the numeric values into the