Peter asks …
I had my monitor and printer set up so that no color management in the photo editor works well.
It will work even better in Photoshop with color management turned on though, especially if you need to look at others work or need to send out files to be viewed or printed elsewhere …
I just upgraded to photoshop CS2 and by default it has color management. How can I turn it all off?
You can set it to ignore the monitor icc profile by opening Photoshop and do View – Proof Setup and click on ‘monitor RGB’, then close Photoshop without opening a file. This will become your default. You can tell it to ignore profile mismatches etc with Edit – Color Settings and unchecking the boxes in the ‘color management settings’ section and in the RGB etc dropdowns select ‘off’. This is for CS, it might be different for CS2.
In the long run most people find it’s better to simply calibrate and characterize their monitors and use color management, especially if sending files out to be printed elsewhere, but if you’re just outputting to a single printer and you get accurate prints and a close match between screen and print then I can see why you might want to turn it off …
Bill
