ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the basic concepts of color management before looking at the color management interface in Photoshop and the various color management settings. Successful color management relies on the use of profiles to describe the color handling characteristics of each device, such as a scanner or a printer, and using a color management system to translate the profile data between each device in the chain. Photographers are mainly involved in the RGB capture end of the business, which means that more images than ever before are starting out in, and staying in RGB color. In a normal Photoshop workflow, the color management begins with reading the profiled RGB color data from the incoming file and, if necessary, converting it to the current Photoshop RGB workspace. The PCS is the translator that interprets the colors from a profiled space and defines them using either a CIE XYZ or CIE LAB color space. The Profile Connection Space is an interim space.
