Digital BW, The Print

I wrote:
> Note that making custom versions of Adobe RGB is actually a lot easier in
> Photoshop 5 than Photoshop 6 since PS 5 lets you save them as standard RGB
> profiles while Photoshop 6 makes you save the whole color settings setup
> which you then select as "Working RGB" in the print dialog box.  So don't
> trash that old version of 5.0!!!  It does a few things PS 6 does not.

Oops - I just started seeing what I could do in PS 6 with this and realized
that you still can save custom working space setups as profiles.  It is a
bit more buried in the menus than in PS 5 -- but it is there.  In Color
Settings select RGB and select Adobe RGB.  Then in RGB select "Custom RGB."
Then change the gamma and click "OK."  Then go back to RGB and select "Save
RGB" and you can save it as an ICM profile in the folder where your ICM
profiles normally reside.  So make, say, an Adobe 1.1, Adobe 1.2, Adobe 1.3,
etc. and you can have a full range of RGB profiles that will convert your
grayscale file to an RGB file with an applied gamma.  Whichever Adobe RGB
gives you the best match between your standard grayscale working space (be
it 1.8 or 2.2) is the one you would use in the Print Space in the print
dialog box to make the print match your monitor.  I used to do this in PS 5
for making gamma changes to RGB files with actions (where it is a bit easier
to call up a profile than a curve) but it should work fine in the print
dialog as well.

-- Dan Culbertson
so many years, so little time...