Color Settings; Customize Color Settings; About Color Working Spaces; Working Space Options - Adobe Photoshop CS6 User Manual

Color settings

Customize color settings

About color working spaces

Working space options

About missing and mismatched color profiles
Color management policy options
Color conversion options
About rendering intents
Advanced controls in Photoshop
Customize color settings
For most color-managed workflows, it is best to use a preset color setting that has been tested by Adobe Systems. Changing specific options is
recommended only if you are knowledgeable about color management and very confident about the changes you make.
After you customize options, you can save them as a preset. Saving color settings ensures that you can reuse them and share them with other
users or applications.
To save color settings as a preset, click Save in the Color Settings dialog box. To ensure that the application displays the setting name in the
Color Settings dialog box, save the file in the default location. If you save the file to a different location, you must load the file before you can
select the setting.
To load a color settings preset that's not saved in the standard location, click Load in the Color Settings dialog box, select the file you want to
load, and click Open.
Note: In Acrobat, you cannot save customized color settings. To share customized color settings with Acrobat, you must create the file in
InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop, and then save it in the default Settings folder. It will then be available in the Color Management category of the
Preferences dialog box. You can also add settings manually to the default Settings folder.
About color working spaces
A working space is an intermediate color space used to define and edit color in Adobe applications. Each color model has a working space profile
associated with it. You can choose working space profiles in the Color Settings dialog box.
A working space profile acts as the source profile for newly created documents that use the associated color model. For example, if Adobe RGB
(1998) is the current RGB working space profile, each new RGB document that you create will use colors within the Adobe RGB (1998) gamut.
Working spaces also determine the appearance of colors in untagged documents.
If you open a document embedded with a color profile that doesn't match the working space profile, the application uses a color management
policy to determine how to handle the color data. In most cases, the default policy is to preserve the embedded profile.
Working space options
To display working space options in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, choose Edit > Color Settings. In Acrobat, select the Color Management
category of the Preferences dialog box.
To view a description of any profile, select the profile and then position the pointer over the profile name. The description appears at the bottom
of the dialog box.
RGB Determines the RGB color space of the application. In general, it's best to choose Adobe RGB or sRGB, rather than the profile for a specific
device (such as a monitor profile).
sRGB is recommended when you prepare images for the web, because it defines the color space of the standard monitor used to view images on
the web. sRGB is also a good choice when you work with images from consumer-level digital cameras, because most of these cameras use sRGB
as their default color space.
Adobe RGB is recommended when you prepare documents for print, because Adobe RGB's gamut includes some printable colors (cyans and
blues in particular) that can't be defined using sRGB. Adobe RGB is also a good choice when working with images from professional-level digital
cameras, because most of these cameras use Adobe RGB as their default color space.
CMYK Determines the CMYK color space of the application. All CMYK working spaces are device-dependent, meaning that they are based on
actual ink and paper combinations. The CMYK working spaces Adobe supplies are based on standard commercial print conditions.
Gray (Photoshop) or Grayscale (Acrobat) Determines the grayscale color space of the application.
Spot (Photoshop) Specifies the dot gain to use when displaying spot color channels and duotones.
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