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Technique 4: The Last Word about Color Management
Save Time By
Calibrating your monitor
Setting a color working space
Setting color management policies
Handling color space conversion
When I travel to different countries, I’m not always lucky enough to speak the language. Over the years I’ve managed to learn a good deal of Spanish and French, but Danish, Russian, Hindi? Nope. If I want to speak to someone who knows no English (or Spanish or French), I need a language interpreter. A good color management system works as a color interpreter. It looks at how color is created by different peripheral devices — such as digital cameras, monitors, and printers — and then translates the color for each device, helping them display (or print) the colors as accurately and consistently as possible.Why do you need a color management system? Well, have you ever scanned a photograph, opened the scanned image in Photoshop, and then discovered to your dismay that the colors you see on-screen don’t look anything like the original photograph? A color management system checks the colors coming in from the scanner and then tells the monitor to match those colors and accurately display them. If you think that setting up a color management system is difficult, it’s not. Here’s the secret: All you have to do is adjust the colors of your monitor (or calibrate your monitor) to display colors accurately, and then you must tell Photoshop what devices you’re using so that it knows how to accurately adjust and standardize the colors from device to device.This technique deals with color management — a topic that’s created lots of confusion over the years. Whenever I talk to Photoshop users, many are puzzled about how the colors on the monitor can differ from a photograph or color printout. Follow through this technique to find out how to set up color management on your computer. First, I discuss why each device handles color so differently. Then, I move on to the nitty-gritty of calibrating your monitor and setting up color profiles so that Photoshop can be your color interpreter.
