Color Correction and Management Flashcards

Which blend mode is most effective for correcting color casts when using a Solid Color fill layer?

Answer: Color

Color blend mode changes the hue and saturation of underlying pixels while preserving luminosity, making it ideal for color cast correction with fill layers.

What does the Rendering Intent 'Perceptual' prioritize when converting between color spaces?

Answer: Maintaining overall visual relationships between colors

Perceptual rendering intent compresses all colors proportionally to maintain visual relationships, even if absolute color values shift.

In Photoshop's Curves dialog, pulling the midpoint of the RGB composite curve upward will:

Answer: Brighten midtones while compressing shadow/highlight detail

Pulling the RGB midpoint up brightens midtones but compresses the tonal range at both shadows and highlights.

Which Photoshop tool allows you to sample multiple colors across an image and display their values simultaneously?

Answer: Color Sampler tool

The Color Sampler tool places up to ten persistent sample points whose values are displayed in the Info panel at all times.

When using Selective Color adjustment, what does increasing the 'Black' slider in the 'Reds' channel accomplish?

Answer: Darkens only the red areas by adding black ink

The Black slider in Selective Color adds or subtracts black ink from the selected color range, darkening those specific tonal areas.

Which color profile is best suited for images destined exclusively for web display?

Answer: sRGB IEC61966-2.1

sRGB matches the color space of most monitors and web browsers, making it the standard profile for web-only images.

What is the purpose of the 'Use Black Point Compensation' option in Photoshop's color conversion settings?

Answer: Maps the darkest shadow of the source to the darkest shadow of the destination

Black Point Compensation scales the shadow tones so the source's darkest point maps to the destination's darkest point, preserving shadow detail.