
Chapter 26
More about ColorMore about Color
Separations
In this chapter I talk a little more about color separations and the theory
behind the techniques. While most of this has been touched on in previ-
ous chapters, none of these topics have been discussed in depth. Topics
covered in this chapter include color gamuts and out-of-gamut color
issues, halftones, information on dot gain and loss, selective color correc-
tion, undercolor removal (UCR) and gray component replacement (GCR),
more about the DCS 2.0 file format, and information relative to image
resolution, line count, mesh count, and moiré.
Color Gamuts
You’ll mainly be working with two color gamuts: ...