Re: Proof Colors in Photoshop
Re: Proof Colors in Photoshop
- Subject: Re: Proof Colors in Photoshop
- From: Mark Stegman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:23:13 +1000
Marcello,
As Rob says it is not always convenient to view your images in the final
print space however, if it's the only one you are using you can just
convert them all and work in CMYK. Some Prepress houses still do this as
their printing conditions are tightly controlled, usually (hopefully?!)
standardised and they're not creating complex special effects, just
controlling colour. It *will* limit the number of tools, techniques and
effects you can play with and this is why designers will leave the
conversion to the last minute and use the Proof Colors option to Preview
the final result. See my earlier email to David under "Soft-proof copying
in Photoshop - colour management 101" for a more detailed description of
the Adobe colour management options.
Personally, I would *never* use ProPhoto as this is a VERY wide gamut
colour space that, as far as I know, cannot be rendered with any reflective
printing condition. It might be good for archiving but the best monitors
today can only reach Adobe RGB (1998) and that far exceeds the colour space
of commercial offset printing. This means that when images with highly
saturated colours that are beyond the limits of your monitor's colour space
you can't be sure that what you see is what is actually there in your
image, let alone what you will eventually get when printed. In believe this
is why some publishing workflows now require images to be supplied in the
sRGB colour space as there is less likelihood of dramatic shifts in
saturated colours when converted to CMYK for commercial offset printing and
therefore less 'surprises' when the job is finished. sRGB is also the
default 'lowest common denominator' for the world wide web as it is a
colour space that most monitors can achieve. Once we have finished the
transition to a world in which hi-res monitors, backlit displays, digital
projections and interactive 3D holographs in 'living colour' are the norm
these wider gamut colour spaces may have more utility. Until then, I
believe you are working in a world no-one can see. At least, not accurately.
Mark
On 02/08/2013, at 8:26 AM, Matthew Ward <email@hidden>
wrote:
>
> On 1 Aug 2013, at 13:26, Marcelo Copetti <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I was reading about Soft-proofing and I would like to know is there is
any
>> way to leave "Proof Colors" enabled as default in Photoshop.
>
> Not as far as I know but the keyboard shortcut is cmd Y (on a Mac) which
is not massively arduous. You need to set your custom proof set up in View
> Proof Setup > Custom first though.
>
> Best
> Matthew
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