Creating A Viewing Environment For Color Management; Setting Up Color Management - Adobe 13101332 - Photoshop - Mac User Manual

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Creating a viewing environment for color management

Your work environment influences how you see color on your monitor and on printed
output. For best results, control the colors and light in your work environment by doing
the following:
View your documents in an environment that provides a consistent light level and color
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temperature. For example, the color characteristics of sunlight change throughout the
day and alter the way colors appear on your screen, so keep shades closed or work in a
windowless room. To eliminate the blue-green cast from fluorescent lighting, consider
installing D50 (5000 degree Kelvin) lighting. Ideally, view printed documents using a
D50 lightbox or using the ANSI PH2.30 viewing standard for graphic arts.
View your document in a room with neutral-colored walls and ceiling. A room's color
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can affect the perception of both monitor color and printed color. The best color for a
viewing room is polychromatic gray. Also, the color of your clothing reflecting off the
glass of your monitor may affect the appearance of colors on-screen.
Match the light intensity in the room or variable lightbox to the light intensity of your
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monitor. View continuous-tone art, printed output, and images on-screen under the
same intensity of light.
Remove colorful background and user-interface patterns on your monitor desktop.
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Busy or bright patterns surrounding a document interfere with accurate color
perception. Set your desktop to display neutral grays only.
View document proofs in the real-world conditions under which your audience will see
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the final piece. For example, you might want to see how a housewares catalog looks
under the incandescent lightbulbs used in homes, or view an office furniture catalog
under the fluorescent lighting used in offices. However, always make final color
judgments under the lighting conditions specified by the legal requirements for
contract proofs in your country.

Setting up color management

Photoshop simplifies the task of setting up a color-managed workflow by gathering most
color management controls in a single Color Settings dialog box. You can choose from a
list of predefined color management settings, or you can adjust the controls manually to
create your own custom settings. You can even save customized settings to share them
with other users and other Adobe applications, such as Illustrator 9.0, that use the Color
Settings dialog box.
Photoshop also uses color management policies, which determine how to handle color
data that does not immediately match your current color management workflow. Policies
provide guidelines on what to do when you open a document or import color data into an
active document.
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