Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

SELECT THE COLOR SETTINGS for your projects
Using Photoshop, you can improve photographs,
repurpose them, or start with a blank canvas to create
original graphic designs or paintings. Because different
types of output have different limits on the range of
colors that they can represent, you should start by
setting the working color space that matches your
project’s intended output, such as for print or the web.
Photoshop’s default color space is set to sRGB, a
limited color space intended for web images to be
viewable on even the lowest-quality monitor. sRGB is
a small color space. Designers and photographers
who plan to print their work with inkjet printers
generally prefer to work in the larger color space
called Adobe RGB (1998).
In Photoshop, you can easily choose your working
color space and save it. When you work on a project
you intend to print, start by selecting the North
America Prepress 2 settings and Adobe RGB (1998).
You can then select different options depending on
your intended output. Alternatively, you can select
the ProPhoto working space if you prefer to use the
widest color gamut possible for photographic editing.
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1 Click Edit.
2 Click Color Settings.
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The Color Settings dialog box
appears.
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3 Click the Settings drop-down
menu and select North America
Prepress 2.
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