Color Managment In photoshop♥

September 21, 2009

Color Mangement In Photoshop CS4
http://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1332853
April 21, 2009 By Conrad Chavez, David Blatner
Blog Assignment 1
In this article the author explains how it really matters the colors on the image. To obtain an image with a good quality you need to learn how to use color management system. CMS is software that does its best to maintain the appearance of colors when reproduced on different devices. It lets you assign a specific color appearance to RGB or CMYK which stands for printing document with color, numbers that would otherwise be ambigous.The reference color space, also known as the profile connection space is a device independent, perceptually based on color space. You never have to work directly with the reference color space it's the theory behind how the software works. A profile describes the behavior of a device like a scanner monitor, or printer. For instance the profile can define a virtual color space that's unrelated to any particular device. Profile embedding means that when you embed a profile in an image, you aren't changing the image itself, and you're not changing the color values. All you are doing is including extra information that tells color management. When you ask the color management system to make a conversion, to change the numbers in the file the CMS needs to know where the RGB or CMYK color values came from and where you want to send them. By using the tools in this article will help me to do better in my Chicano art project. And it will maintain a color appearance as consistently as possible.