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Need help for Photoshop color profile setting

Need help for Photoshop color profile setting

2015-03-12 by ravisharma_70@...

Dear Member,


I have recently purchased Spyder Elite4 for monitor calibration. After monitor calibration, not sure what colr profile settings I need to use in Photoshop. I tried spending too much time exploring different forums, but couldn't get answer.

Appreciate if someone can help to share snap shot of Photoshop setting for color profile.


Thanks

Ravi

Re: [datacolor_group] Need help for Photoshop color profile setting

2015-03-12 by James R. Holtzman

I'm not sure if you see the big picture or not, there are two halves to the process. First is to calibrate your monitor, so what you see on your screen would look the same that someone else would see on their monitor, if their monitor is calibrated too. I've heard that most monitors are turned up too bright, and therefore the printouts are usually appearing too dark. I'm not using the same monitor calibration device you are using, but if it works like mine, as my computer boots up, the profile of my monitor is read and my monitor darkens somewhat and I see a color shift.

The second half of the process is to have an ICC profile of a combination of your printer, ink, and paper. I use a Spyder 3, it prints out a number of color blotches on the paper I will be using, reads the blotches with it's scanner and analyzes the difference. Once it creates a color profile, you use that profile while printing, and you can put that profile into photoshop.

I'm not an expert on this, I'm sure you will get a better response from somebody else on the net, but I just wanted you to know we are listening and communicating with the right group.

Jim

At 08:16 PM 3/11/2015, you wrote:
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Dear Member,


I have recently purchased Spyder Elite4 for monitor calibration. After monitor calibration, not sure what colr profile settings I need to use in Photoshop. I tried spending too much time exploring different forums, but couldn't get answer.

Appreciate if someone can help to share snap shot of Photoshop setting for color profile.


Thanks

Ravi


James R. Holtzman
Empirical Technology
Carmichael, CA 95608
(916) 487-9712
emptech@surewest.net
http://www.emp-tech.net

Re: [datacolor_group] Need help for Photoshop color profile setting

2015-03-12 by David Miller

On Mar 11, 2015, at 11:16 PM, ravisharma_70@... [datacolor_group] <datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> 
> Dear Member, 
> 
> 
> 
> I have recently purchased Spyder Elite4 for monitor calibration. After monitor calibration, not sure what colr profile settings I need to use in Photoshop. I tried spending too much time exploring different forums, but couldn't get answer. 
> 
> Appreciate if someone can help to share snap shot of Photoshop setting for color profile. 
> 
> 
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> Thanks 
> 
> Ravi 
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> 

You don't do anything in Photoshop to use the profile that was created when
you calibrated your display. It's set as the "system profile", and Photoshop
uses it, automatically and silently, to adjust the contents of its windows.

Do NOT set the display profile as your RGB Working Space. Use sRGB, Adobe RGB,
etc which are actual "working spaces" (profiles designed specifically for conversions
between device dependent and device independent color spaces)

David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
Datacolor

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