Color managementfor online viewing is very different from color management for printedmedia. With printed media, you have far more control over the appearanceof the final document. With online media, your document will appearon a wide range of possibly uncalibrated monitors and video display systems,significantly limiting your control over color consistency.
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When you color-managedocuments that are viewed exclusively on the web, Adobe recommendsthat you use the sRGB color space. sRGB is the default working spacefor most Adobe color settings, but you can verify that sRGB is selectedin the Color Management preferences. Withthe working space set to sRGB, any RGB graphics you create willuse sRGB as the color space.
Blurb Publishing and Color Management with Blurb's BookSmart. Have you ever shot what you believed were superb photos and wished you could print those beauties into a nicely produced hardbound book, found an online one-off book publisher, built and purchased that book, received it and wondered why the colors were a bit different than what.
When you export PDFs, you canchoose to embed profiles. PDFs with embedded profiles reproducecolor consistently under a properly configured color managementsystem. Keep in mind that embedding color profiles increases the sizeof PDFs. RGB profiles are usually small (around 3 KB); however,CMYK profiles can range from 0.5 to 2 MB.
Ina traditional publishing workflow, you print a hard proof of yourdocument to preview how its colors look when reproduced ona specific output device. In a color-managed workflow, you can usethe precision of color profiles to soft-proof your document directlyon the monitor. You can display an onscreen preview of how yourdocument’s colors look when reproduced on a particular outputdevice.
Keep in mind that the reliability of the soft proof depends uponthe quality of your monitor, the profiles of your monitor and outputdevices, and the ambient lighting conditions of your work environment.
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A soft proof alone doesn’t let you preview how overprintinglooks when printed on an offset press. If you work with documentsthat contain overprinting, turn on Overprint Preview toaccurately preview overprints in a soft proof.
A. Document is created in its working color space. B. Document’scolor values are translated to color space of chosen proof profile(usually the output device’s profile). C. Monitordisplays proof profile’s interpretation of document’s color values.
Choose Tools > Print Production. The Print Production tools are displayed in the right-hand pane.
Choose the color profile of a specific output device from the Simulation Profile menu.
Simulatesthe dark gray you really get instead of a solid black on many printers,according to the proof profile. Not all profiles support this option.
Simulatesthe dingy white of real paper, according to the proof profile. Notall profiles support this option.
When you create Adobe PDFs for commercial printing, you can specify how color information is represented. The easiest way to do this is using a PDF/X standard. For more information about PDF/X and how to create PDFs, search Help.
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In general, you have the following choices for handling colors when creating PDFs:
(PDF/X‑3) Does not convert colors. Use this method when creating a document that is printed or displayed on various or unknown devices. When you select a PDF/X‑3 standard, color profiles are automatically embedded in the PDF.
(PDF/X‑1a) Converts all colors to the destination CMYK color space. Use this method if you want to create a press-ready file that does not require any further color conversions. When you select a PDF/X‑1a standard, no profiles are embedded in the PDF.
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All spot color information is preserved during color conversion;only the process color equivalents convert to the designated colorspace.
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