To Convert Colors In A Document To Another Profile; To Customize Color Settings; About Color Working Spaces - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

To convert colors in a document to another profile

1 In Photoshop or InDesign, choose Edit > Convert To Profile.
Under Destination Space, choose the color profile to which you want to convert the document's colors. The
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document will be converted to and tagged with this new profile.
3 Under Conversion Options, specify a color management engine, a rendering intent, and black point and dither
options. (See "Color Conversion options" on page 271.)
4 To flatten all layers of the document onto a single layer upon conversion, select Flatten Image.
5 To preview the effects of the conversion in the document, select Preview. This preview becomes more accurate if
you select Flatten Image.
See also
"Changing the color profile for a document" on page 266
Color settings

To customize color settings

For most color-managed workflows, it is best to use a preset color setting which 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
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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.

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. For more information on setting up color management policies, see "About missing
and mismatched color profiles" on page 269 and "Color Management Policy options" on page 270.
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