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Installing the Best Workflow color settings

Installing the Best Workflow color settings - Photoshop Tutorial

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Installing the Best Workflow color settings

In this exercise, I am going to show you how to establish what I believe to be the best color settings inside of Photoshop and the other Creative Suite applications. Now color settings is Photoshop and Adobe's word, really, for color management policies inside the various programs. They help ensure that you achieve consistent prints so that what you see onscreen is more or less what you get from your printer. But even more important they help establish consistent color onscreen between the different applications and on the Web as well. Now by default, these color settings are set up for consumers. Basically Adobe is using the consumer color space out there, which is sRGB. And I believe we can do better than that. We ought to set Photoshop up for working professionals and that's what we're going to do here. Now I have this file that I've provided for you called Best Workflow CS5.csf, and it's available as usual inside of that 00_setup folder right there. There it is, and you may see a…

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