Tutorials - Color Management for Photographers - page 327

you will have a good output profile for the printer you intend to use for
this tutorial. That way, you can visually see the effect of various working
spaces on your final output. For output evaluation, be sure to have a
good viewing box or at the very least, an environment where you can
view the prints side by side to see the effects of the RGB working space
on the Working Space Test file.
1. Open the WorkingSpaceTestFile.tif found on the supplied
CD. This image was scanned using a high-end drum scanner
and the document is embedded with the correct input profile. If
your Color Settings are such that you get an Embedded
Profile Mismatch , pick the radio button Use the embedded
profile (instead of the working space) to preserve the color
space of the document seen in Fig. 9-4-1 since we want to
work with the full gamut of the capture device.
2. Once the document is open, it will be necessary to duplicate it
so that you can convert the document into several RGB
working spaces. Choose Image-Duplicate , name this
document sRGB , and click OK .
3. After the new duplicated document is created, we will convert
from the capture color space into sRGB.
4. Choose Image-Mode-Convert to Profile in Photoshop CS or
Edit-Convert to Profile in CS2 as seen in Fig. 9-4-2.
From the Profile pop-up menu, select sRGB .
From the Engine pop-up menu, select Adobe ACE .
From the Intent pop-up menu, select Relative Colorimetric .
Have Use Black Point Compensation and Use Dither check
boxes on.
Be sure the Preview check box is on.
Click OK .
Fig. 9-4-1 If the Profile
Mismatch appears, select
the radio button Use the
embedded profile
(instead of the working
space) .