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Need some help.
The craggy subject of printing in photoshop using Photoshop to manage colours.
Can somebody give me the schoolboy process to allow me to proceed to get best colour matching.
.Using a Hahnemulhe textured paper (I have the ICC profile).
From opening the image to hitting the print button what steps do I need to take to make certain I get best possible match to the original RAW processed image.
For tech purposes using 2019 iMac 5K Retina screen colour Munki calibrated. Using PS 21.0.2 version.
I want to understand (again: time laspses in between printing and a foggy memory) if I have to alter colour profiles from sRGB to the ICC profile or just print in the sRGB space and di I need Adobe Color printer utility which Photoshop keeps prompting me to load (now downloaded and added to applications).
Any help on this would be sincerely grateful.
Thanks in advance Gerard.
In colour settings make sure you have these checked
That will make sure that Photoshop uses the colour profile embeded in your document
When printing use File > Print and select "Photoshop manages Colours" and the correct Profile for your printer and paper combination
In your printer - make sure colour management is off and that the paper settings are as advised by your paper manufacturer
That is it. Nothing to convert - colour management is simple if you let it do it's job. You only nee
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Hello, quickly, did you check https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/printing-color-management-photoshop1.html and computer-darkroom.com 's recommended settings?
If you are printing from raw, it is sad to restrict colors to sRGB, too... a wider profile, in 16 bits might get you closer to your printable colors.
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In colour settings make sure you have these checked
That will make sure that Photoshop uses the colour profile embeded in your document
When printing use File > Print and select "Photoshop manages Colours" and the correct Profile for your printer and paper combination
In your printer - make sure colour management is off and that the paper settings are as advised by your paper manufacturer
That is it. Nothing to convert - colour management is simple if you let it do it's job. You only need the Adobe Colour Print Utility if you make your own profiles.
If you want to read a bit more , try this:
Colour Management simple explanation
Digital images are made up of numbers. In RGB mode, each pixel has a number representing Red, a number representing Green and a Number representing Blue. The problem comes in that different devices can be sent those same numbers but will show different colours. To see a demonstration of this, walk into your local T.V. shop and look at the different coloured pictures – all from the same material.
To ensure the output device is showing the correct colours then a colour management system needs to know two things.
1. What colours do the numbers in the document represent?
This is the job of the document profile which describes the exact colour to be shown when Red=255 and what colour of white is meant when Red=255, Green = 255 and Blue =255. It also describes how the intermediate values move from 0 through to 255 – known as the tone response curve (or sometimes “gamma”).
Examples of colour spaces are (Adobe RGB1998, sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
With the information from the document profile, the colour management system knows what colour is actually represented by the pixel values in the document.
So what can go wrong :
Colour management is simple to use provided the document profile is correct, always save or export with an embedded profile, and the monitor/printer profile is correct. All the math is done in the background.
I hope that helps
Dave
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Also: what is the color printer utility you mentioned? and which printer is it?
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It sounds like this utility https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/no-color-management-option-missing.html and is only needed to print targets without any colour management when making your own profiles. It is not needed if using a paper manufacturers profile.
Dave
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Yes, exactly. Not to be used for normal printing.
Nice post up there, Dave. That should set the record straight 🙂
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Thank you Dag 🙂
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Same here, I need to print it out and frame it. 🙂 (PDF does nicely)
Gene
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Wow, that's one from the archives of the XFiles... 😉
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Thank you Dave. Problem solved! Have a nice day.