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Anonymous
November 15, 2010
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Which Proof>Setup view to use?

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When I'm in Photoshop and I go to View>Proof setup... which one should I have checked to make certain I'm getting correct colors etc. for the image I"m working on?  I want that image look the same to me as it's going to look when I send it to the lab for prints or put it on a website or whatever.    I know if it's say a business card my proof setup is on CMYK but if it's portraits I'm working on, should it be Windows RGB or Monitor RGB or what?  Then, if I"m going to save a version for the web should I change that view and if so to what?   The whole thing could drive you crazy!    I"m running Windows Vista 32 bit home premium version and Photoshop CS4.

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    emil emil
    Inspiring
    November 15, 2010

    As for what profile to choose for what destination, you have to know the destination. If the designation is not a particular device but a common target like offset printing or web page viewing on the Internet, then use one of the common color spaces profiles that come with Photoshop. For printing assign US Web Coated (SWAP) v2 color profile on your CMYK images, and for web sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and you will be fine for the current most common printing and web viewing situations. Also if  you choose in the Color Settings North American General Purpose 2 preset from the Settings menu (which is the default), all new documents created will be automatically assigned these profiles.

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    Anonymous
    November 15, 2010

    OK, now what if I'm sending it to a lab for printing.  For example I use

    MPIX PRO for my portrait prints.  Do I just keep it at Adobe 1998?  I use a

    Canon camera which I shoot in Adobe 1998.  So do I just make sure that my

    profile in PHotoshop is in working rgb Adobe 1998?

    Les

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    emil emil
    Inspiring
    November 15, 2010

    You should make sure that the current image color profile is the one of your targeted destination and Photoshop will simulate as much as possible the targeted device on your monitor. For that you don't need any Proof Setup being on. You can check what is the current color profile of the image being  used in the Info palette when show  Document  Profile is checked in the Info palette's options.

    Proof Setup is useful when you want also to check how your image will look on other color spaces and devices that are different from the space of the currently used color profile of the image. For example you can create multiple windows of the image by choosing Window > Arrange > New window for "name of your document" and apply different viewing profiles for each window so you can see simultaneously how your image will look on different targets while you are creating/editing it.

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    Anonymous
    November 15, 2010

    Thank you for your response.   Those were great suggestions on how to view

    the image.  So if the image is in Adobe 1998 the setup will be on Windows

    RGB, is that correct?  One more question...  When I have an image ready for

    print and then I want to make a reduced DPI version for the web and I go to

    save for web, the image that shows in that window looks totally washed out.

    How do I deal with that issue?

    THanks,

    Les

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    emil emil
    Inspiring
    November 15, 2010

    lesrenee wrote:

    ...So if the image is in Adobe 1998 the setup will be on Windows RGB, is that correct?  ...

    Windows RGB = sRGB. In cs5 they replace the name of that item with "Internet Standard RGB" recognizing the fact that newer Macs use sRGB too.

    If the color profile of the image is Adobe 1998 and the Proof Setup is on with Windows RGB, Photoshop will simulate on your monitor how the color values will look on the ideal sRGB space. By pressing Ctrl + Y to toggle the soft proof , Photoshop will simulate between Adobe 1998 and sRGB - how close that simulation is, depends on the display capabilities of your monitor.

    lesrenee wrote:

    ... One more question...  When I have an image ready for

    print and then I want to make a reduced DPI version for the web and I go to

    save for web, the image that shows in that window looks totally washed out.

    How do I deal with that issue?...

    What is the Preview option in Save for Web set to, if the color management of your system is working correctly there should be no difference if the Preview option is set to "Use Document Profile".

    lesrenee wrote:

    OK, now what if I'm sending it to a lab for printing.  For example I use MPIX PRO

    for my portrait prints.  Do I just keep it at Adobe 1998?  I use a Canon camera

    which I shoot in Adobe 1998.  So do I just make sure that my profile in PHotoshop

    is in working rgb Adobe 1998?...

    I'm not familiar with that service, but you should ask them. The best thing is if they can provide you with the color profile of the printers that will print your work, so you can use it to simulate the print result.

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