Inside Photoshop® CS

Coming to Terms with Color Management

To be frank, color management is still not an easy topic to understand, and you can't master it by reading a few paragraphs. But we promise you that it is possible to learn, that it is worth the effort, and that if you take your time going through this chapter, you will be able to use Adobe's CMS and still have enough brain cells left to do creative, artistic work.

In this section, we look at some of the key terms used in talking about color management. Along the way, you'll catch a little of the history of how this newest CMS evolved.

Color Spaces and Color Gamut

Throughout this chapter, you frequently are going to see the terms color spaces and color gamut, as coarsely described in Chapter 0, “Answers to ...