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Configuring Photoshop's color settings - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Configuring Photoshop's color settings
Before you get started with serious color work in Photoshop, it's a good idea to double check Photoshop's color settings. When you installed Photoshop, it may have asked you to configure some color settings--although different versions are more or less aggressive about that than others. So in Photoshop, just go to the Edit menu and choose Color Settings. Now if you're using a very old version of Photoshop, say a pre-Creative Suite version, then you probably won't have this. If you're using a version that old, you're not going to have a lot of color management options anyway, so you might want to consider an upgrade. Color Settings basically let you insure that Photoshop's default behavior is going to be to use the color spaces that you prefer. For example, as you've seen, your camera can be set so that it shoots images and tags them with either the Adobe RGB or sRGB color spaces. There might be times, though, when your camera screws up and doesn't tag the image properly, and when…
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Exploring how color works2m 5s
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Reviewing color models2m 56s
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Defining gamut and color space9m 55s
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Reviewing when colors go out of gamut4m 54s
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Configuring Photoshop's color settings5m 47s
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Changing color space in Camera Raw4m 7s
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Working in an advanced color space6m 13s
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Assigning a color space in Photoshop2m 20s
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Correcting a color image9m 17s
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Printing a color image3m 30s
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Evaluating the print2m 5s
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