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<a name="1007857"> </a>Color Management
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<a name="1007861"> </a>Corel Painter features color management controls designed to match colors between various devices, such as scanners, digital cameras, printers, and monitors.
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<a name="1007910"> </a>Understanding Color Management
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<a name="1007911"> </a>Each device has a range of colors, or color space, that it uses. For example, a monitor displays a different set of colors than a printer reproduces. So some colors may print differently than they appear on the screen.
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<a name="1007912"> </a>You can use a color management system to translate colors from one device to another. Color profiles define the color space for your monitor and for the input and output devices you use.
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<a name="1007466"> </a>Color management helps ensure color consistency and accuracy. It improves your output quality and saves you time and money by helping to avoid reprinting.
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<a name="1007214"> </a>Color management is designed to help artists create full color images for printing, in two ways:
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<li class="SmartList1"><a name="1007240"> </a>It lets you view an on-screen preview of how your image will look when printed on a particular printer.</li>
<li class="SmartList1"><a name="1007241"> </a>It lets you apply a device-specific "optimization" to the color data when printing from Corel Painter or saving to EPS format.</li>
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<a name="1007238"> </a>Color management is not an issue for artists creating for the World Wide Web, CD-ROM interface, games, or any project destined for the computer display.
