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1Understanding ColorIn This Chapter Getting the essentials of managing color Speaking the language of color Mixing three hues into millions of colo

16Part I: The Basics of Color Editing Understanding channelsIn Photoshop Elements terms, the three hues your monitor displays (red,green, and blue) ar

Why are there 256 levels?This 256 number comes up a lot when talking about image modes. Whatmakes it so special?Reproducing tone on paper or a monitor

18Part I: The Basics of Color Editing color file sizes as small as possible. Computers couldn’t display 16.7 millioncolors back then, so monitors that

CMYKYou can’t edit in this mode, but Elements does allow you to open a CMYKcolor mode file that Elements converts upon opening to RGB mode so thatyou

20Part I: The Basics of Color Editing  Grayscale mode has far more editing options than bitmap mode. It’s bestto keep master files in grayscale mode

8Part I: The Basics of Color Editing One thing to keep in mind is that the more preparation steps you cut out ofyour color-management workflow, the fa

There you have it. Your first steps in color correction involve controllinglighting, calibrating your monitor, and having all the color profiles you n

10Part I: The Basics of Color Editing Figure 1-1: This simple color wheel shows red, green, and blue hues.The first thing you might question is the ye

The next color that might confuse you is blue. It looks purple, you say? Youalso might think that the cyan patch should really be called blue. Remembe

12Part I: The Basics of Color Editing Figure 1-2: A green patch shown at different levels of saturation.Figure 1-3: These three cyan color patches var

We repeat these color concepts a great deal in this book as we work our waythrough color management. Editing a file to change overall color, brightnes

14Part I: The Basics of Color Editing Suppose you took a picture in which the foreground subject is in the sun. Inthe background, your eyes see a beau

Figure 1-4: The Color Picker identifies a fully saturated red color.Understanding graysThe number of distinct settings you have for color mixing are c