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Reviewing color models - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Reviewing color models
So look at this thing. I would call this red, and if I was trying to describe it to you over the phone, I might say it's red like an Apple, and you might say a Macintosh Apple or a Fuji? To which I would respond, no, it's a really waxed red delicious apple that's got that really deep color, and then you might say, oh, I only shop at the organic produce market and they don't wax the fruits there. So I don't know what you're talking about. This is a problem with color: how do you create a language for it? When it comes time to build a device that can send a color image to another device, you have to have a way to describe color. In other words to work with color, we need a way to model it, a set of rules that describe precisely what a particular color is. Now there are a lot of different ways to do this. There are lots of different color models. We've already discussed the RGB or red, green, blue model wherein every color is described as a mix of red, green, and blue values. We've also…
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Exploring how color works2m 5s
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Reviewing color models2m 56s
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Defining gamut and color space9m 55s
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Reviewing when colors go out of gamut4m 54s
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Configuring Photoshop's color settings5m 47s
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Changing color space in Camera Raw4m 7s
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Working in an advanced color space6m 13s
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Assigning a color space in Photoshop2m 20s
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Correcting a color image9m 17s
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Printing a color image3m 30s
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Evaluating the print2m 5s
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