How to Achieve Great Color Every Time (1,549 words)
In Adobe Photoshop, you can apply conversions of digital images to your monitor's color space. This can be useful because if it is done properly, it results in a fairly accurate rendition of your image on screen.
Get Your Images Right To Begin With
When you print color images, remember that it's garbage in, garbage out. Color must be balanced and corrected, the white points and shadow points of each image adjusted. These are the brightest and darkest parts of the image in which you still want to maintain detail. In Photoshop, this is done in either the Levels palette or the Curves palette using the highlight and shadow samplers. Since the average printing press needs at least a 3-percent dot to ensure detail, set your highlight sampler (the little white eyedropper in the palette) to a CMYK value of 4-3-3-0 (cyan saturation always has to be a bit higher), and then use it to select your white point. Set your shadow sampler to RGB values of 5-5-5 and then click it on the darkest point in which you want to see detail. (This will also keep your total ink coverage below 300 percent.) Balance your color.
