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