Chapter 10. Using and Managing Color
In This Chapter
Using foreground/background colors
Understanding color
Managing color
Setting up the work environment
Using color profiles
In order to produce great output, you must understand color and how Elements treats color. If you want to carry a laptop computer around to show off your photos, you can basically adjust color for this particular computer. However, sharing photos with other users, printing your pictures, and hosting photos on Web sites require that you know something about the way color is displayed on other devices and in photo prints.
There's a lot to know about managing color, including setting up color workspaces, managing color, and working with color profiles. In this chapter, we talk about these issues and offer some key concepts for understanding color as it pertains to Photoshop Elements.
Dealing with Foreground and Background Colors
Foreground and background colors appear in the Tools panel as large color swatches. What you see in the two-color swatches represents the current selected color for a foreground and the currently selected color for the background.
Colors appearing in the Foreground Color Swatch can be used to fill type selections, shapes, and strokes, as well as with all the marking tools. You can also use the current ...
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