Color Management Systems - Technical Guides

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Color Management Systems

A Color management system (CMS) helps to reduce or eliminate color-matching problems and makes color portable, reliable, and predictable. This techguide provides an introduction to color management systems, explains why they are of increasing importance in the desktop publishing industry, and defines some of the basic concepts and components of a CMS. This techguide is divided into the following sections:

What is a color management system?

The Color Management Models

Device Profiles

The Color Matching Method (CMM)

Render Intent

CMS Workflow

For related information, see also the following related guides:

•		"Basic Color Theory"

•		"Color Models"

•		"Color Management for Adobe Photoshop 5.0"

•		"Using Adobe Gamma "


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