You ve labored long and hard to get the color exactly right. You ve used all the tricks ”Levels, Curves, Selective Color, Color Balance, Adjustment Layers, the Unsharp Mask filter (covered in Chapter 16, Adjusting Tonality and Color ) ”and the image looks perfect on your computer display. Unfortunately, what your printer just spit out looks quite different. Those beautiful sky blues have turned to gloomy blue-gray. Furthermore, the image looks quite different from one display to another.
If you re a digital artist or graphic designer using Photoshop to print color images, you probably frequently ask yourself two important questions: How can I be confident that the color on my display will be matched by the color of the printer? And, how can I trust that the color on my display will look like the color on your display? These questions are about how you manage color from one device to another, and that s what this chapter is about. In this chapter, you ll read about:
Why you need to manage color
Photoshop s color working space
Managing color between displays
Converting colors
Printing images