Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques

Chapter 6. Color Management

	This would be so much easier if I weren’t color-blind.
	--Donkey from the movie Shrek

This chapter should probably be named “Confessions of a Photoshop Expert,” and it’s the one that I wish I could have read myself a few years ago. My embarrassing secret? There was a time I found color management to be so painstakingly cumbersome and time-consuming that I found every reason to avoid it.

But color management is not rocket science. The truth is that all this stuff can really work if you can just get over a bunch of terms and figure out how to deal with a few simple settings. And once it’s all set up, you don’t have to do ...