Synchronizing Color Management Between Applications; Soft-Proofing Colors - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual

Synchronizing color
management between
applications
The Color Settings dialog box represents the
common color management controls shared by
several Adobe applications, including Photoshop
6.0 and Illustrator 9.0. If you modify and save over
the current color settings file in any application
other than Photoshop, you may be prompted to
synchronize the common color settings upon
starting Photoshop or upon reopening the Color
Settings dialog box in Photoshop.
Synchronizing the color settings helps to ensure
that color is reproduced consistently between
Adobe applications that use the Color Settings
dialog box. To share custom color settings between
applications, be sure to save and load the settings
file in the desired applications. (See "Saving and
loading color management settings" on page 130.)
Soft-proofing colors
In a traditional publishing workflow, you print a
hard proof of your document to preview how the
document's colors will look when reproduced on a
specific output device. In a color-managed
workflow, you can use the precision of color
profiles to soft-proof your document directly on
the monitor—to display an on-screen preview of
the document's colors as reproduced on a specified
device. In addition, you can use your printer to
produce a hard-proof version of this soft proof.
(See "Using color management when printing" on
page 382.) The following diagram shows how the
source document profile, proof profile, and
monitor profile are used to represent colors in a
soft proof.
A B
A. Document space B. Proof space C. Monitor space
Keep in mind that the reliability of the soft proof is
highly dependent upon the quality of your
monitor, your monitor profile, and the ambient
lighting conditions of your work station.
(See "Creating an ICC monitor profile" on
page 136.)
To display a soft proof:
Choose View > Proof Setup, and choose the
1
proof profile space that you want to simulate:
Custom soft-proofs colors using the color profile
•
of a specific output device. Follow the instructions
after this procedure to set up the custom proof.
Working CMYK soft-proofs colors using the
•
current CMYK working space as defined in the
Color Settings dialog box.
Working Cyan Plate, Working Magenta Plate,
•
Working Yellow Plate, Working Black Plate, or
Working CMY Plates soft-proofs specific CMYK
ink colors using the current CMYK working space.
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