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Before you begin working in Adobe Photoshop, I recommend setting up some values under color settings.
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Under edit menu, choose color settings - brings up the color settings dialogue box. And I must commend Adobe for making a fairly
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complex and sophisticated collection of parameters, very fairly easy to understand here in the color settings.
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Color settings is a way to optimize your imaging workflow by assigning different types of color profiles to your image based on your final needs.
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Notice at the top of our color settings dialogue box, we have a popup list of various imaging type of workflows.
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One of them is to simply turn off color management entirely. Notice if we choose any of these various settings, the settings here
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will change to be associated with this collection of presets. And also at the bottom of our color settings dialogue box, we have
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a description area. And if I pass my cursor over any one of these items,
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the description area will update to show me some information about this particular feature or selection.
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The two that I use most often is US pre-press defaults, and what this will do is convert my RGB working space to Adobe RGB.
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Which is a very large color gamut, or range of colors that can be reproduced. And it will also change my CMYK working space to
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the US Web coded or SWOP version-2. Now that's a little bit different if I choose my other option, which is web graphics default.
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And in this case, my RGB working space will be the SRGB option which is a little bit darker in general than the Adobe RGB option.
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So I'm going to go back to the US pre-press defaults. Why should you use color settings?
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The reason you would do this is to (as I mentioned) assign an ICC color profile to an image when you open it
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or when you create it. With this profile assigned you can use other ICC compliant devices such as output devices
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and their associated profile to get a more realistic soft proof of your image. And also when using ICC color profiles, the color
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management system will try to ensure a consistent device-independent color translation, so that you will get more consistent results.
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The net effect of this is that your soft proofs will be more predictable based on using ICC color profile compliant output devices.
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And any type of proofs that you make will more often look like what you see on the screen.
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So you will get consistent color - that doesn't always necessarily mean brilliant color but consistent color.
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So I'm going to click ok to this, and show you when you would have to deal with this.
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Under file menu>open and I'm just going to go to my documents in my Photoshop 7 source folder, and I'll just choose this one
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and click open. And notice the dialogue box that it comes up with. It's asking me to make a choice about the mismatch color profile.
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Since this was taken on my digital camera, it has an embedded SRGB profile, but I'm going to convert this to my Adobe RGB working space
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by choosing convert document's color to working space. The net result can be very subtle or very subtle changes indeed.
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But when you are working with a very long-range large gamut range of colors, you can begin to see some big differences.
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So I recommend choosing your color workflow at the beginning of working in Adobe Photoshop,
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based on what you think your final output needs will be - if it's US pre-press
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or perhaps if it's the World Wide Web. It helps to make that choice before you begin to do imaging projects.
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