Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers Tutorials
Photoshop Foundations / Color Settings
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There's an additional set of options that you need to set that relate to the color spaces used for your images and working space. In an ideal world, every device could reproduce every color. In the real world, each device can only reproduce a subset of colors. That's why we have the concept of color spaces. To access the color settings, go to Edit, Color Settings on both the Mac and a PC. Generally speaking, you'll want your RGB working space to be Adobe RGB. It's wider than sRGB and correlates reasonably well to the colors your printer can print. sRGB is a smaller color space and is useful for the web and e-mail where images may be viewed using applications that are not color managed. Some photographs like the Pro Photo RGB space because it contains some colors the printer can print but that aren't in Adobe RGB. The downside to it is that it has far more colors that cannot be printed and will be viewed as out of gamut and thus will have to be changed in order to create a print. This can slightly change the appearance of the image and when changing the image to sRGB for a slideshow or web use, the appearance may change still further. Most photographers like to use Adobe RGB for that reason, although there are indeed some who prefer Pro Photo. Leave CMYK at its default setting unless you're dealing with a pre-press who sends you a specific profile to use. Similarly, I would suggest leaving gray and spot at their default settings. I prefer to use the embedded profiles. That way if I'm dealing with an sRGB document, it remains an sRGB document so I'm not changing it back and forth. I check these other options down here to instruct Photoshop what to do in case there's a mismatch in the profiles of the images and my current working space. But don't check the first one since we've already decided we want to preserve the embedded profile. Unless you want to be alerted to the possibility that something is already in sRGB. Although there is a More Options Button, this is one of the few times that for most photographers I don't recommend using it. Leave it set at its default fewer options. When you're done, click OK.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers |
| Author: | Ellen Anon |
| SKU: | 34036 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-74-2 |
| Release Date: | 2009-09-23 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 112 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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