question on CS3 proof colors

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Toby
Dec 31, 2007
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Hi all,

Forgive me, I’m confused. I’ve got a decent 21" CRT monitor, calibrated with Pantone Spyder (running XP Pro SP2). I’m preparing photos and fractal graphics for stock and microstock. Generally I soft proof with monitor RGB, as this is very a very accurate preview of what my prints look like when I print. Programs other than PS, such as ACDSee, and my web browsers, also seem to agree with this, i.e., a photo opened in ACDSee looks just like PSCS3 with " monitor RGB" proof colors enabled.

So what is Adobe Raw and CS3 showing me if I don’t enable proof colors (which is considerably darker and more saturated)? Is this Adobe RGB?

More to the point: should I color correct in "monitor RGB" mode? It’s a bit of a toss-up, since the files might be used either on the web or prepared for print. Obviously there is room for the end user to correct to taste, but I am wondering what space I should use to prepare the files generally.

TIA. Any advice or links appreciated.

Toby
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Joel
Dec 31, 2007
"Toby" wrote:

Hi all,

Forgive me, I’m confused. I’ve got a decent 21" CRT monitor, calibrated with Pantone Spyder (running XP Pro SP2). I’m preparing photos and fractal graphics for stock and microstock. Generally I soft proof with monitor RGB, as this is very a very accurate preview of what my prints look like when I print. Programs other than PS, such as ACDSee, and my web browsers, also seem to agree with this, i.e., a photo opened in ACDSee looks just like PSCS3 with " monitor RGB" proof colors enabled.
So what is Adobe Raw and CS3 showing me if I don’t enable proof colors (which is considerably darker and more saturated)? Is this Adobe RGB?
More to the point: should I color correct in "monitor RGB" mode? It’s a bit of a toss-up, since the files might be used either on the web or prepared for print. Obviously there is room for the end user to correct to taste, but I am wondering what space I should use to prepare the files generally.
TIA. Any advice or links appreciated.

Toby

All you need to do is separating all your confusions into separated problems to solve one at a time.

1. General, after you have the monitor calibrated the software/hardware should save the Monitor Profile to FILE, and Windows should use it as the DEFAULT monitor profile.

That’s it! everything relates to monitor is taken care of, you do not need to worry what to do with it.

=======DONE==== extra if you wish you mess around more—-

2. Web Displaying, now if you use aRGB color-space for your work, and want to save to sRGB for web displaying then you can save the ones for web as sRGB.

I use aRGB for everything so I don’t remember all small detailed step’s how to save to sRGB color-space.

========DONE==== and other option if you want to mess around even more–

3. Printing, if you retouch for printing (like I do) then this is another option or issue you may need to setup for your own need (or depending on the printer you use for printing). And most people don’t mess with this setting.

– *If* you need to print using specific printer *and* there is Printer Profile available then you can setup Photoshop to use that specific PRINTER and PAPER by loading the Printer Profile to it.

Many (not all) photolabs have their Printer Profile available on their web pages, and updating to their current setting. And some Printer Manufactures have the Printer Profile available at their web sites as well (I am no longer do my own pritning to know more about this).

– Then during retouching, you can toggle between Screen/Printer displaying (Ctrl-Y ?) to see if the color matches what you want.
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Toby
Jan 3, 2008
Thanks Joel, very helpful.

Toby
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Joel
Jan 3, 2008
"Toby" wrote:

Thanks Joel, very helpful.

Me Joel? you are quite welcome for whatever I said (?)

Toby

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