CHAPTER 2

Photoshop and Color Management

At last, we get to Adobe Photoshop and color management! Photoshop is the hub of the digital imaging universe. Nearly every image can be brought into Photoshop, usually for a great deal of image editing and often for output to a printer. Photoshop has very robust color management capabilities. After the release of version 5.0 back in 1998, ICC color management became more recognized due to Adobe’s dominance in the imaging market. Other software vendors slowly began to implement color management support in their products due to the color management in Adobe Photoshop 5.0.

The most revolutionary change in Adobe Photoshop 5.0 was the complete overhaul of how the application dealt with images with regard ...

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