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The FreeHand color management workflow

To manage color effectively in FreeHand, you can perform some or all of the following procedures:

Calibrate your monitor to adjust monitor colors to match colors in the output device profile. To adjust the monitor colors by matching them to printed samples or swatches, see Calibrating monitor colors visually.

On the Macintosh, apply dithering to simulate colors onscreen that do not appear in the 8-bit color palette. This option is useful for preparing 256-color graphics for the Web. See Applying dithering (Macintosh).

Build or specify profiles for each device in the workflow to characterize the device's color space. See your device's documentation to learn how to calibrate it. For more information, see About color profiles.

Select the Kodak Digital Science or Apple ColorSync color management system and choose options, or use the Color Tables option for limited color management. For more information, see Using Kodak Digital Science and Apple ColorSync CMS or Using color tables.

When printing four-color separations using Kodak Digital Science or Apple ColorSync, choose a Separations Printer profile. To print composite proofs of color separations, choose a Composite Printer profile. For more information, see Choosing printer profiles.