Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

Archival Issues with Paper How long will your print last? This is a question that paper manufacturers asked the leading paper ar ...

Whether this medium is dual-layer DVD, blue-laser DVD, or kryptonite doesn’t mat- ter. Just keep your eye on new storage technol ...

Interactivity can range from simple to complex. A simple multimedia CD can include onscreen buttons that the viewer uses to move ...

photographs, and to adjust the contrast, color balance, or other characteris- tics. You can also use art software to create back ...

292 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 19.5 Importing a video clip into Windows XP’s Movie Maker. Put all t ...

20 In this chapter Color Processes Color Image Layers Making Your Prints Match the Monitor Color Theory Color images can be cr ...

When white light (which contains all colors) shines on paper (or passes through film), the CMY inks or dyes absorb their opposit ...

Three Image Layers Create Color Images A color photograph begins as three superimposed layers of light-sensitive silver halide e ...

into the layer. Thus a color dye image appears in proportion to the amount of developed silver in each layer. The silver is then ...

Making Your Prints Match the Monitor—Gamuts and Color Management Prints don’t look exactly like the image on the monitor. And ju ...

HUMAN VISION AND COLOR GAMUTS The human eye sees more colors than machines can reproduce. The term gamutis used to describe all ...

Color management, a new technology, seeks to perfect color matching. Color man- agement synchronizes the monitor and the printer ...

Before you print, find out whether the printer you intend to use makes better prints when you edit in RGB mode or CMYK mode (se ...

Create one or more adjustment layers (refer to Chapter 16, “The Importance of Layers and Masks”) to fix the print’s problems (s ...

Printing in RGB and CMYK RGB and CMYK are the two modes commonly used to edit color images. Some print- ers, especially inexpens ...

CHAPTER 20 COLOR THEORY 303 FIGURE 20.13 Monitor image with out-of- gamut colors. FIGURE 20.14 Gamut warning-colored mask. The ...

When the colors are within the gamut, the Gamut Warning will disappear. In some cases, you will need to lighten or darken the c ...

Multiple Printers: About Paper There may be more than one printer connected to a computer. Because the color gamut database (pro ...

Choosing the wrong paper can reduce the effectiveness of color management sys- tems. At this time, most printer manufacturers su ...

21 In this chapter Direct Versus Diffused Light Using Available Light Using Artificial Light Lighting Lighting is the most imp ...