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Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques
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Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

by Ben Willmore
August 2005
Beginner
592 pages
24h 40m
English
Adobe Press
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Setting Up Your Images for Final Output

If your images are going to be printed on a commercial printing press, chances are that they will end up looking a lot darker than they did when you viewed them onscreen. This is known as dot gain. Fortunately, Photoshop allows you to compensate for it. You can tell Photoshop ahead of time how you intend to output your images, and it will adjust the onscreen appearance of your image to look as dark as it should be after it's printed.

To select or enter dot-gain settings, choose Edit > Color Settings (Photoshop > Color Settings in CS on a Mac). In the Working Spaces area, you'll use the Gray pop-up menu (Figure 5.25). You'll definitely want to ask your printing company about what settings to use; otherwise, ...

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