Digital BW, The Print

For a black and white group, you guys sure are talking a lot about 
color spaces...    : )

The colormatch space is a perfectly good, wide gamut space to use. I 
believe the radius monitors are "optimized" for it. Of course, they 
probably do just as fine with any of the other ones...  : )

What I hate is having to drop to a lower gamut space when I want to 
export a jpeg for the web (with color images).  Is there a preference 
in Photoshop that I am missing where I specify a space to use with the 
"save for web" option? What exactly is going on there?

-mikeH


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Carolyn  Frayn <carolyn@u...> 
wrote:
> 
> > Antonis/Carolyn,
> > 
> > This has been a good thread. I will get that book. Thanks for all
> > the information on this topic. I will probably go back to square
> > one on all my color settings.
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I have done that more than once. Especially when PS6 came out and I had to
> rethink everything!  That book Antonis mentioned is extremely good... I have
> the PS5 version. Many dog-ears good!  I also like the PS Bibles, easy to
> find info for what interests you.
> 
> 
> > I rarely know how I'm gonna output a file when I'm retouching it. I
> > tend to think that I'm working in some kind of "raw mode" when
> > I'm doing the basic burning and dodging and contrast and "look"
> > of the image. I always scan in Gray, and do all the work in that
> > mode. Then I convert to RGB when I start the toning. I generally
> > embed the ColorMatchRGB profile when I'm working in RGB;
> > Gamma 1.8 when I'm still in Gray. Once I get it ready, THEN I
> > think about how I'm gonna output it: either to the 7000, or to
> > CMYK for a job, etc. Do you work/think like that? Or do you
> > scan/burn/everything with an intended use in mind, from the very
> > start?
> 
> 
> I personally do both.
> 
>  If I "know" where the file will be output I edit in the output device's
> profile. If I am unsure of the output devise or if the file will be output
> to more than one devise then I save the file in it's original space (Adobe
> (1998)RGB or Gamma 1.8) and work on copies in the color space/profile as
> required.
> 
> Best,
> Carolyn