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Color settings and intent

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Color settings and intent

In the previous exercise, I was showing you how you can preview your colors in CMYK while you continue to work along in your RGB image. In this exercise, I want to give you a sense of how that conversion happens and how you test how accurately it occurs as well and what kinds of changes you might want to make. Now, I don't want to get too deep into color management here because it is ultimately a little bit of a quagmire, but I do want you to understand what's at work inside of Photoshop and how those settings that we originally established, under the Edit menu here, we chose the Color Settings command at the outset of the course and we established those Best Workflow CS5 settings as you may recall, how those settings affect what we're seeing on-screen and how reliable this CMYK proofing ultimately is. So worst-case scenario, just let the information flow over you, best case, you'll actually gain some insights out of this exercise. So, note that I'm still working inside of Aggressive…

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