Understanding and choosing color settings in Photoshop

Its important to have all of your applications set up with the…right color settings and you can do this individually or en masse.…My guess is you're probably going to want to do it individually.…So let's start with Photoshop.…And you can find this under Edit, if…you scroll down you'll see Color Settings right here.…Now if you've never done this before, this is what…you're going to be presented with, North American General Purpose 2.…Really only applicable to people just working on the web.…We want to set it up for photography and editing, so let's go ahead and do that.…Now the first thing we have is working spaces,…what do you want your default working space to be?…Now we've talked about sRGB and Adobe RGBM, ProPhoto and CMYK earlier, in…this case I'm going to recommend that you set your working space to ProPhoto RGB.…

Doesn't mean you're always going to have your images in that.…But by having the biggest space as your default, you're not going to do…any compressions of colors unwittingly.…Now, for CMYK, if you're a designer, the U.S. Web Coated…