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Article: How to get true colours.(Windows XP Pro)
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
- Author:
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Working with visual digital media such as photography, video and graphics requires consistent and ideally, portable, colour models. Otherwise, what you see won't match what you get when it's printed out or viewed on the screen.
Smoothing out the colour differences is made difficult by the fact that disparate devices use varying methods of reproducing colours. For instance, monitors use the Red Green Blue (RGB) method, corresponding to the coloured phosphor triplets in CRT (cathode ray tube) screens. Printers use a different method to describe colour space, however: Cyan Magenta Yellow (CMY, sometimes CMYK with the last letter derived from the added Black).
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