Putting Theory into Practice

If your head hurts from trying to assimilate all this data, you're in good company (refer to Figure 2.1 again). Color management is not a topic to digest the first or even the second time around. But when the light bulb goes on in your head and you shout, “Eureka! I really understand how this works!” you will have moved a long way from hoping your print jobs go okay, to knowing what they will look like before you see the finished results. So let's put into action the concepts of color management we've discussed. We'll start by creating a custom Color Settings preset file and then practice assigning and converting profiles.

Creating a Custom Color Settings File

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Launch Photoshop, if it is not already open.
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Press ...

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