Inside Photoshop® CS

Checking Out the Colors in the Poster

First, let's not get our hopes too high of ever restoring the original colors in the poster. As you can see in Figure 19.1, the acquisition was made with a Kodak color reference strip next to it. Here's a brief history of the whats and whys of this scan of the poster:

Figure 19.1. When this image was taken, a Kodak color reference strip was added for historical purposes.

The scan is of a silk screen on poster board image of the mountains of Montana, and it's a fairly striking illustration, dark and somewhat moody. Its simple posterized geometry and limited colors make it perfect source material for creating ...