12. The Adobe Common Color Architecture: Color Management in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator

On our bleaker days, we wonder why all vendors that implement color management feel they have to do it their way, with their own unique user interface and their own unique terminology. So we derive a certain amount of comfort from the fact that Adobe Systems has at least attempted to standardize much of the user interface and most of the terminology between its three main color-managed applications, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.

We think that Adobe has done more than any other vendor in finding rational ways to present color-management options to the user, and the integration between the three applications generally ...

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