Working with advanced color

PaintShop Pro has many advanced color features that let you work with color in many ways. For example, you can change the color depth of your images to prepare them for printing or the Web. You can control how your monitor displays colors and manage colors for output. You can also split images into color channels.

This section presents the following topics:

• Understanding color depth

• Viewing color depth information

• Increasing the color depth of an image

• Decreasing the color depth of an image

• Understanding color reduction methods

• Understanding palette options

• Working with image palettes

• Understanding color and color models

• Understanding how monitor colors and print colors differ

• Calibrating your monitor

• Working with color management

• Using color channels