Specifying Working Spaces - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual

It's important to save your custom configurations
so that you can reuse and share them with other
users and Adobe applications that use the same
color management workflows. The color
management settings that you customize in the
Color Settings dialog box have an associated
preferences file called Color Settings.csf, found in
the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder.
Note: The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6
Settings folder varies by operating system; use your
operating system's Find command to locate this
folder.
To customize color management settings:
1 Choose Edit > Color Settings.
To use a preset color management configu-
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ration as the starting point for your customization,
choose that configuration from the Settings menu.
Specify the desired color settings. As you make
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adjustments, the Settings menu option changes to
Custom by default.
For detailed customization instructions, see
"Specifying working spaces" on page 127, "Speci-
fying color management policies" on page 128,
and "Customizing advanced color management
settings" on page 130.
Save your custom configuration so that it can be
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reused. (See "Saving and loading color
management settings" on page 130.)
Click OK.
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Specifying working spaces

In a color-managed workflow, each color mode
must have a working space profile associated with
it. (See "About working spaces" on page 125.)
Photoshop ships with a standard set of color
profiles that have been recommended and tested
by Adobe Systems for most color management
workflows. By default, only these profiles appear in
the working space menus.
To display additional color profiles that you have
customized or installed on your system, select
Advanced Mode in the Color Settings dialog box.
To appear in a working space menu, a color profile
must be bidirectional, that is, contain specifica-
tions for translating both into and out of color
spaces. You can also create a custom RGB, CMYK,
Grayscale, or Spot working space profile to
describe the color space of a particular output or
display device.
For more information, see "Creating
custom RGB profiles," "Creating custom
CMYK profiles," and "Creating custom grayscale
and spot-color profiles" in online Help.
For information about a specified RGB or CMYK
working space profile, see the Description area of
the Color Settings dialog box. (See "Setting up
color management" on page 124.) The following
information can help you specify an appropriate
Gray or Spot working space:
You can specify a Gray or Spot working space
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profile that is based on the characteristics of a
particular dot gain. Dot gain occurs when a
printer's halftone dots change as the ink spreads
and is absorbed by paper. Photoshop calculates
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