Colour settings in Photoshop CS

Zheka

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What are the best settings?
Also for some reason if I save photos for the web, the colours look washed out a little...

Thanks
 
i think you need to set your monitor colour settings to match photoshop then it makes things a little easier - but i have to admit i often need help with this

FYI i have my powerbook colour settings to ADOBE RGB and i set photoshop the same.

hope that helps
 
You should ideally use the largest profile you can - largest meaning the widest range of colours, usually containing brighter and more saturated colours. But that all really depends on what you intend to do with your work:

If your camera and printer support it, use Adobe RGB.

If you intend to display your work on the web, use RGB.

Most monitors and browsers can only display in RGB, and working in Adobe RGB and then saving for web can lead to washed out colours as already mentioned.
 
glitch said:
You should ideally use the largest profile you can - largest meaning the widest range of colours, usually containing brighter and more saturated colours. But that all really depends on what you intend to do with your work:

If your camera and printer support it, use Adobe RGB.

If you intend to display your work on the web, use RGB.

Most monitors and browsers can only display in RGB, and working in Adobe RGB and then saving for web can lead to washed out colours as already mentioned.
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so what do you have your monitor set to them - what should i set mine to? i thought using adobe 1998 on my monitor would mean it was more insync with what PS is doing therefore what i see will be more accurate to the result shown to others? please correct me if im wrong
 
Just setting your monitor with the Adobe RGB profile doesn't mean that is what it is showing - you need to use some form of calibration hardware and/or software to produce a profile for your monitor. This is then used by PS so that it knows how your monitor will reproduce colours and works with the relevant colour space to reproduce the colours as accurately as possible.

You also need to tell PS what colour space you are wanting to work with, and for the most part Adobe RGB will be the best bet unless you are working specifically for websites and not for prints.

In addition you may need to add the relevant profile for your printer into PS so that you can proof your work and see what it will look like when printed. This, as with everything, requires a display that is accurately calibrated.
 
I'm thinking of buying a ColorPlus sensor. Is it any good ? I like the price of it.
Thanks :)
 
It's very basic and not actually all that accurate, although it's better than any of the software-only solutions. A better bet would be the new Gretag Macbeth Pantone Huey @ £70.
 
undilutedethics said:
well i have very good calibration software on my powerbook so i think ill use that and transalte it into PS as you have said and then set the colour space accordingly
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All depends how serious you are and how critical accurate colours are to your work. Software will get you by but nothing will beat a hardware calibration unit - especially when using a laptop.
 
if you use aRGB, and plan to save for web, convert to sRGB first to avoid the colour washing out :) I have an action bound for this.

Tom.
 
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