Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®

Lesson 18. Producing and Printing Consistent Color

To produce consistent color, you define the color space in which to edit and display RGB images, and in which to edit, display, and print CMYK images. This helps ensure a close match between on-screen and printed colors.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Define RGB, grayscale, and CMYK color spaces for displaying, editing, and printing images.

• Prepare an image for printing on a PostScript® CMYK printer.

• Proof an image for printing.

• Create a color separation, the process by which the colors in an RGB image are distributed to the four process-ink colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, ...