Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Back in Photoshop CS6, Adobe introduced the new “dark” color scheme (replacing the old
light gray look that had been Photoshop's look since Photoshop 1.0). But, if you want a
lighter or darker version of Photoshop's user interface, you can press
Shift-F1
to make the
interface one shade darker or
Shift-F2
to make it one shade brighter (you can press it more
than once, depending on how light/dark your current interface is set). Also, if you're using
a laptop, depending on how you have your laptop's preferences set, to make this shortcut
work you might have to add the Fn key (so, Fn-Shift-F1 or Fn-Shift-F2).
Assigning a Color Profile to Your RAW Image
If you shoot in RAW, your camera doesn't embed a color profile in the image (like it does
with JPEG and TIFF images). You assign a color profile in Camera Raw, and if you're us-
ing Camera Raw for all your editing, and then you're just saving your file as a JPEG for
emailing or posting to the web, you're going to want to assign a color profile that keeps the
colors looking like you saw in Photoshop. You do this by clicking on the blue link beneath
the Preview area in Camera Raw. This brings up the Workflow Options dialog, where you
choose which color profile gets embedded into your image (you choose it from the Space
pop-upmenu).Ifyou'reemailingtheimage,orpostingitontheweb,choose
sRGB
asyour
color space—that way it pretty much maintains the colors that you saw while you were in
Camera Raw (if you left it at ProPhoto RGB, or even Adobe RGB [1998], the colors on the
web, or in the email, will probably look drab and washed out).
Get a Histogram for the Most Important Part of Your Photo
If you're editing a portrait in Camera Raw, the most important part is, of course, your sub-
ject, but the histogram in Camera Raw shows you a readout for the entire image (so if you
shot your subject on a white background, the histogram isn't going to be much help in de-
termining if the skin tone is correct). To get around this, grab the Crop tool
(C)
, and drag
