Creating a color-managed environment

Elements offers color management features whose main purpose is to get as close…a match as possible, between the colors that you see in a photo when you're…working on it in Elements, and the colors you get when you print the final photo.…Color management can also help predict color in photos that you share…online, but only if your viewers happen to be using your color managed Web…browser to view your photos.…Currently, not all Web browsers are color managed, so the techniques I'll…show you here are most important for those of you who are planning to print your photos.…Now, color management is a pretty complex subject, and it requires some equipment…beyond just Elements' software, as I'll explain in this movie.…

So, I want to make it clear from the start that color managing your photos, as…I'll show you here, is optional.…If you're printing casual snapshots only, or you're just posting photos online,…and you're happy with the colors you're getting, you don't have to follow the…color management workflow that I'll set out here.…