Keys to Photoshop CS3: Color Settings
Ever wonder how you should set up your color settings in Photoshop CS3/CS2? What are color settings you say? This video is for you. In it we’ll cover: What RGB color space to use and why, what a color space is, and where to set custom CMYK color settings to get the best results when converting your images to CMYK for printing on a commercial press.
To be sure, there is much discussion about working color spaces and which of them is best. My recommendations in this video tutorial are based on my experience as a commercial photographer. Your particular circumstances may dictate a different choice. You really can’t go too wrong with Adobe 98 as your setting. Fine art photographers are increasingly starting to turn to ProPhoto RGB with it’s extremely wide color gamut to get the most out of their images. But if you don’t understand color management in general adn color spaces in particular, ProPhoto RGB could do you more harm than good. Want to learn more? See below.
[Warning: if you are new to all of this, the following information can cause a splitting headache]
If you’d like to read about all the sordid details, here are three articles to get you started:
sRGB vs. Adobe RGB at cambridgeincolour.com
Introduction to Color Spaces at drycreekphoto.com
If you are looking primarily to get the best output from conventional photographic prints ordered online, you might find this article on Smugmug entitled Getting great prints: sRGB vs Adobe 98 to be interesting.
Finally see Why Use the ProPhoto RGB Color Space? if you are wondering about the ProPhoto RGB space I mentioned.