Understanding color management compatibility

…Any discussion of color management begins with monitor calibration.…Without a calibrated monitor, you cannot get dependable, accurate color.…Period.…This chapter presumes that you have a calibrated monitor.…If you don't, and you do work destined for print,…you should consider investing in a hardware monitor calibration sensor.…So, I've got this set up so that…we're going to be looking at both Painter and Photoshop.…And right now, this is Painter. And right here, we have Photoshop.…

And if you look at these two, you can see that they look pretty close.…I've also got a little digital color meter here that…comes with the Mac OS, so that I can check these.…And I can see.…By looking at each of these, that the values are very close.…We are not going to be able to get em exactly the…same, but I just want to look in a few places here.…Like this is and I'll just going to use the last two numbers, 83, 45, 55. 834458.…

This is 340219, 324022.…So you could see there's some differences here.…So we'll keep this handy as we go through this.…