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Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies
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Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies

by Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova
December 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
496 pages
12h 57m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 15

Getting It on Paper

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Preparing files for printing

Bullet Working with printer profiles

Bullet Using the Print dialog box

Bullet Using Printing Services

Perhaps the greatest challenge when using programs such as Photoshop Elements (and even the professionals who use its granddaddy, Adobe Photoshop) is getting what you see on your monitor to render a reasonable facsimile on a printed page. You can find all sorts of books on color printing — how to get color right, how to calibrate your equipment, and how to create and use color profiles — all for the purpose of getting a good match among your computer monitor, your printer, and the paper used to print your output. It’s downright discouraging to spend a lot of time tweaking an image so that all the brilliant blue colors jump out on your computer monitor, only to find that all those blues turn to murky purples when the photo is printed.

In this chapter, we talk about options — many options — for setting print attributes for printing to your own color printer. If you need to, reread this chapter a few times just to be certain that ...

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