The Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Book for Digital Photographers

Chapter 13Fit to Print Step-by-Step Printing and Color Management

In previous versions of this book, this chapter was simply called color management, when in reality it was pretty much a chapter on printing, because if you’re not printing, who really cares if you’re color managed, right? What you see onscreen is what you get—you don’t have to match it to anything. But once you start printing, all heck breaks loose. (Note: I didn’t want to use the word “heck” there, but my editors are sensitive and I didn’t want to startle them.) The two are very closely tied together, and maybe that’s why much of Photoshop’s color management takes ...