From the course: Color for Design and Art
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What you see is what you get - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Color for Design and Art
What you see is what you get
- No discussion of color in the digital age would be complete without talking about ways to help make sure what you see on your monitor is what you'll get when your works of design, illustration and photography are posted and printed, or WYSIWYG, as they call it. Before we dive into this whole WYSIWYG thing, just know that I can't be super specific with all my advice since I don't know what kind of computers and monitors you're using. But that won't stop me from trying to help you out here as best I can. Starting with this solid piece of advice: calibrate. The point of calibrating your monitors and desktop printers is to get various machines to conform to the same standards of color, as much as possible anyway. How do you do this? It all depends on what kind of computers and monitors you're using. Look at your user manuals and/or go online and find the information there. Here are five specific things to keep in mind when calibrating whatever monitors you're using. First off, make sure…
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