Lou, Thanks for responding. First off, I have borrowed and read a copy of Real World Color Management 2nd edition. It's still on my shelf, and I'm trying to figure it out. But this stuff is confusing (and I have two degrees from a top British university -- but not in color management). 1. The parameters of our monitors are close, but not identical. I couldn't get her cheaper monitor dark enough. But anyway, our viewing environments are pretty different. So I suppose I should just ignore what I'm seeing on my monitor (I'm not doing colour adjustments, just the layout etc.). 2. Her files are being saved with the default US web coated SWOP. 3. Okay, this is making sense. I think I went on a wild goose chase by asking her for her monitor profile. After all, when she chooses a CMYK number + a CMYK press profile (the default), we now have an "objective" colour defined (I guess that means a specific Lab colour?) And because her monitor is profiled, Photoshop knows what to do to get her monitor to produce that same Lab colour. And when I open that image on my computer, since my monitor is also profiled, Photoshop should know what to do to get it to produce that same Lab colour. So, if what I'm saying here is correct, the only thing I don't understand is why you said I won't be seeing the same colour on my monitor as she is on hers. And the only answer I can think of (please correct me if I'm wrong), is that our viewing environments are different. So to summarize: I should simply let Photoshop "use the embedded profile". Let me know if I'm not understanding this properly. Thanks, Ariel
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