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When you edit images in an application like Photoshop Elements, you're making decisions based on what you see on your computer monitor. What you get when you actually print the image may be a different story. You can calibrate your monitor so that the colors you see on the screen will closely match what you get when you print the image. Adobe Photoshop Elements ships with a utility called Adobe Gamma, which leads you step by step through a process of making adjustments to the brightness, gamma, and white point of the monitor. On a Windows-based machine, you can access the Adobe Gamma utility (shown next) through the Control Panel. On a Macintosh, you can launch Adobe Gamma by choosing Apple Menu | Control Panels | Adobe Gamma.

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