SELECT THE COLOR SETTINGS
Using Photoshop CS4 is an image-altering experience! You can improve photographs, repurpose them, or create original designs. Because printed images and Web images have different limits on the range of colors that they can represent, you need to set the working color space for your project.
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 much smaller color space than what better monitors can show and what printers can actually produce. Designers and photographers generally prefer the larger color space called Adobe RGB (1998) for working with projects intended for print.
1 Click Edit.
2 Click Color Settings.
The Color Settings dialog box appears.
3 Click here and select North America Prepress 2.
The RGB setting changes to Adobe RGB (1998). Note: ProPhoto RGB is an even larger color space
often preferred by professional photographers because it includes a wider range of tones and allows for fine detail editing.
The rest of the Color Settings dialog box changes to reflect the preferred working space for images that you print.
4 Click More Options.
5 Click here and select Relative Colorimetric for a graphic design project or Perceptual for most photographic projects.
6 Click OK. Your color settings are saved until you reset your preferences.
