Re: Guidelines for color safety in color management unfriendly environement?
Re: Guidelines for color safety in color management unfriendly environement?
- Subject: Re: Guidelines for color safety in color management unfriendly environement?
- From: Paul Schilliger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:34:27 +0200
Roger Breton wrote:
I have also a question related to soft proofing in Photoshop. Can I set
for instance the color work space to CMYK and the soft proofing profile
to my monitor profile to see what the image looks like in CMYK without
profile? I know I can do it but the setting does not remain or then it
changes the Photoshop workspace.
Thanks for your kind help!
Paul Schilliger
You don't have to "set the color work space to CMYK and the soft proofing
profile to your monitor profile": Photoshop does this automatically for you
without you needing to ask for it specifically. As long as you don't get
involved with ProofSetup controls, Photoshop is designed to CMYK to RGB and
send the RGB image to your video card for you, so that when you look at a
CMYK image on your RGB monitor, you are acutally looking at a simulation of
CMYK colors using your very own monitor's phosphors.
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
Roger, thanks for your help!
Well, actually what I can see is that the soft proofing setting is a simulation
of the file if printed in the CMYK profile set as color space in the color
settings. Which means that even if the embedded profile is discarded, the
colors will still look fine on this computer. But if the file is then opened
on another computer where color management is turned off, it could be all
wrong. Seeing the file as it would appear on this other computer where it
would be considered as CMYK without profile, doesn't matter if it has one
or not, would be a safeguard option that I would like to have handy. Now
to check this, I have to discard the profile and set my monitor profile as
proof format. But then the monitor profile would be then set as the workspace
and any new file is created in the monitor profile... kind of unwanted effect.
Maybe there is a way to add the monitor profile in the list of soft proofing
options, or even have it on a type key, but I'm not sure how I could do it...
Paul Schilliger
Paul Schilliger Photography
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