Re: [APML] PS profiles; was: nice photoshop web site

["bert katzung" <katzung1@home.com>]

Whoa! Thanks Dale, I finally found it! There appears to be an interaction
between the "Working Spaces" and "Color Management Policies." Whatever I had
the "Working Spaces" on before had greyed out the choices in Color
Management Policies, so I never saw all those choices. I also (for the first
time) see all the choices under Working Spaces, including my printer (Epson
Photo EX) but when I choose that, the on-screen image looks much darker and
muddy. I guess I should go back to the Adobe Monitor or sRGB WorkSpace and
generate a printer profile as you described. The depth of Photoshop never
fails to amaze me. Looks like I'm destined to spend a good part of the rest
of my life learning it.
Thanks again!

Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@home.com
www.astronomy-images.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Ireland" <direland@drdale.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, 05 August, 2001 11:55 AM
Subject: RE: [APML] PS profiles; was: nice photoshop web site


> Bert
> Yes it is there in the section "Color Management Policies"
> If you leave RGB to OFF then when you create a new file there is no
profile
> embedded and if you open an existing image there is no change made to the
> currently embedded profile. You should probably select "convert to working
> profile".
> You may change your working profile depending on where you are going to
use
> your image, for instance
> your working profile might be sRGB if you are going to have your images on
a
> web page or print with a low end printer. It might be Adobe 1998 if you
want
> it professionally printed. If your monitor id very well calibrated then
you
> can stick with "Adobe Monitor" and you icm or icc profile is embedded and
it
> will print fine at a pro lab because it will look the same on their well
> calibrated monitors.
> I was wrong about the lossey part. Embedding a profile doesn't change the
> image information at the pixel level it just changes the way the pixel
> values are read, displayed and printed.
> When I print on my Epson Photo Stylus 750 there is a working profile for
> that and I use it (select it from the list at the top in Photoshop-Color
> settings)then adjust the image to look good in that profile with a
different
> filename so as not to screw up the original. The alternative method is to
> always work on the image in my "Adobe Monitor" color space then when
> printing create an ink profile in the Epson (or whatever) printer manager.
> You just print a few test pictures, move the color sliders in the print
> manager, then save the settings. Actually I use this method most often.
> Dale
>



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