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Chapter 2: Setting Up
Photoshop Elements
dobe Photoshop Elements can be
customized to your working
environment.
About color management
Color management allows you to get consistent
color between digital cameras, scanners, monitors,
and printers. Color management also helps
different applications, monitors, and operating
systems display colors consistently.
When you create computer graphics, each piece of
equipment you work with that reproduces color—
such as a scanner, color monitor, and desktop
printer—is called a device. Each type of device
reproduces a different range of color, called a color
gamut. As you move an image from one device to
another, its colors can shift in appearance,
sometimes resulting in dramatic changes. Color
management maps colors from a device, such as a
monitor, to another device, such as a printer.
Color mapping ensures that colors on the monitor
represent colors that the printer can reproduce.
By attaching, or tagging, a color profile to an
image, you define how colors appear in the image;
changing the attached profile changes how colors
appear. Images without attached profiles are
known as untagged images and are not color
managed.
When an image has a color profile assigned to it,
each device recognizes the profile, and displays
colors according to the settings in the profile. This
way, colors should look the same with all the
devices.
Setting up color management
Photoshop Elements allows you to create color-
managed images easily.
To create a color-managed image:
1 Open a file and choose Edit > Color Settings.
2 Select one of these color management options:
• No color management leaves your image
untagged.
• Limited color management optimizes your
images for the Web.
• Full color management tags your image with a
standard ICC color profile for print optimi-
zation. The exact color profile depends on the
color mode of your image.
3 Click OK.
4 Choose File > Save As, and select ICC Profile
(Windows) or Embed Color Profile (Mac OS) in
the Save As dialog box.
5 Finish saving the image, as described in “Saving
images” on page 225.
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