August 2005
Beginner
592 pages
24h 40m
English
This is why color management is needed. It's designed to deal with all these variations among devices (monitors, scanners, printers, cameras, and so on). All we have to do is measure the exact color of red, green, and blue that your scanner and monitor use and also measure which shades of CMY that your printer uses (I'm ignoring the K in CMYK because black ink won't shift the color of things). Then Photoshop can use its wizardry to send different information to each device to compensate for its unique qualities in an attempt to get consistent results on all those devices.
There is one more issue to deal with before we figure out how to get all this stuff to work in our favor. Remember when I said that your eyes ...
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