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Adjusting the color settings

Adjusting the color settings - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adjusting the color settings

In this exercise I'm going to show you how to customize the color setting so that you get the riches colors you can from Photoshop both when you're working with images on screen and in print. You want to start things out here inside Photoshop. Go to the Edit menu and choose the Color Settings command, or you can press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+K or Command+Shift+K on the Mac. Now by default your settings will read North America General Purpose 2 here in the States. In other countries it's going to read differently. But your first working space option RGB will be set in all countries to sRGB followed by a string of characters. What I want you to do is click on the down pointing arrowhead and change it to Adobe RGB 1998. The reason we're doing this is because sRGB, even though it a laudable standard, is designed to mimic a worst-case scenario consumer level old-style CRT monitor. So it's not even a particularly up-to-date standard. Whereas Adobe RGB is going to provide you with a…

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