Graphics Programs Reference
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or currently loaded proof setup will be available from the
Proof Setup
pop-
up menu in the
Print with Preview
dialog. The
Working CMYK
profile loaded
in the color settings can be selected from the
Proof Setup
pop-up menu.
Otherwise the functionality is still the same as the
Proof
radio button in
Photoshop CS discussed earlier. Note there is a direct connection between
the
Proof Setup
dialog used for producing a soft proof and the
Proof Setup
Presets
in the
Print with Preview
dialog. We are expected to specify profiles
and rendering intent in
Proof Setup
before we can use them for printing
in
Print with Preview
. The
Proof
radio button and the options available
based on the
Color Handling
pop-up are discussed next.
Options/Color Handling
The
Print with Preview
in Photoshop CS2 has a
new pop-up menu called
Color Handling
, which toggles all the other ele-
ments in this dialog on or off depending on which menu item is selected.
There are four menu items available (see the cutout in Fig. 2-25). Some
of these options were available in the
Profile
pop-up menu in Photoshop
CS. In Photoshop CS2, these options were moved to the
Color Handling
pop-up menu with new and more intuitive names. The
Printer Profile
pop-
up menu now lists only the available profiles for conversions
.
Like the
Convert to Profile
command, all you have to do is select the ICC profile you
wish to use for a color space conversion. The profile in this menu is
always the print/output profile that will be used to convert from the orig-
inal document color space to the output device. I mention this due to the
Proof
functionality, which adds one other print/profile that can be selected
and is handled from the
Proof Setup Preset
menu mentioned earlier. Figures
2-25 through 2-29 show the various options in the
Color Handling
pop-
up menu and provide the functionality described next.
Let Printer Determine Colors
Let Printer Determine Colors
is a setting
that instructs Photoshop to send the document data and the embedded
profile to the printer with the aim of having the print driver apply the
print/output color space conversions. When
Let Printer Determine Colors
is
selected from the
Color Handling
pop-up menu in Photoshop CS2, only
the
Rendering Intent
pop-up menu is accessible when the
Document
radio
button is used. This setting allows the document to be sent directly to the
printer with no further color processing by Photoshop. Notice that when
you put the cursor over the
Color Handling
pop-up menu, the description
field reminds you of this, as seen in Fig. 2-26. The
Rendering Intent
pop-
up menu is accessible since the resulting print driver is expected to
conduct a color space conversion from the document color space. Only
a few Postscript RIPs actually pay attention to this information; most RIPs
and all non-Postscript drivers ignore it. Not all print drivers have provi-
sions for applying an output profile. Since Photoshop has no way of
knowing this, the functionality is provided nonetheless. If you are unsure
whether your print driver can produce ICC color space conversions from
