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Understanding color space

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Understanding color space

- In a perfect world, all of our devices, our printers and our monitors, and our screens and our phones, they would all be able to display or print all of the colors that the human eye can see, but they can't. In fact, not only does each device display a subset of colors, different devices display different subsets of color. But to put it another way, if we think a device as being able to represent a certain number of crayons, then different devices not only have different numbers of crayons, so some will be small and only have 10 crayons while others may be larger and have 20 crayons and they also are going to have different colored crayons. So one might have one blue while another color space has five completely different blues. So there's many reasons that different devices represent colors differently. Take screens for example. A screen uses an additive process to represent color where adding equal parts of…

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