The Color Working Space


The Color Working Space

What revolutionized digital color was the introduction of the concept of a specific environment for handling color. This environment, called a color working space , is independent of the display and can be chosen by the user . Under this model, it is possible to scan, save, edit, and store an image with a color working space embedded in it. When the image is saved and then opened again, its appearance will display the characteristics of the color working space. The image is embedded with an ICC (International Color Consortium) profile, information that describes the color characteristics of the color working space. The image can then move from one computer to another with its profile embedded, and will appear similarly on different computer displays.

The color working space concept created the opportunity for Photoshop to accommodate images from scanners and other sources whose colors exceed the available colors of the display. The color working space allows for color to be captured, modified, stored, and output without limiting or compressing the gamut of color of the original.

The color working space also creates something like a pedigree for images, describing their color characteristics so that downstream processing is more reliable, and the resulting images are more pleasing to the creator of the image.




Photoshop CS Savvy
Photoshop CS Savvy
ISBN: 078214280X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 355

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