Monitor Spaces

In versions of Photoshop prior to version 5, images were displayed directly to the monitor’s screen. Most people used the old Knoll Gamma utility which shipped with Photoshop at the time to calibrate their monitors. The technique was to adjust the monitor to match the output. So an image corrected on one workstation would then look slightly (or drastically different) on another workstation. What if you had several kinds of output devices? It meant saving different monitor settings and loading them for each type of output required. This meant a lot of juggling of settings and would often result in user mistakes along the way. Not to mention if an image would have to be sent out of your particular closed loop setting for further editing and output! As each monitor is unique in its display capability, editing your images in the monitor's rgb space is not recomended as is illustrated in the image above.

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