Tutorials - Color Management for Photographers - page 399

Fig. 9-14-3 The Convert
to Profile command
showing the custom CMYK
setting made in step 4.
8. Using the Text Tool (click the letter T to select this), select a
font and type size and label this document GCR None
somewhere on the image. We need to know which converted
file came from the original RGB document.
9. Go back into the Color Settings, click the CMYK pop-up menu,
and select Custom as you did in step 2. Now change the Black
Generation pop-up to Light and click OK . Accept the new
color settings by once again clicking OK .
10. Make the original RGB Printer_Test_File.tif the active
document; duplicate it as you did in step 6. Repeat step 7,
where you used the Convert to Profile command to produce
a conversion from ColorMatch RGB to CMYK using this GCR
light setting, and again using the Type tool, label this
document GCR Light .
11. Repeat the steps of altering the Black Generation pop-up,
picking Medium , Heavy , and Maximum on duplicated
documents from the original RGB Printer_Test_File.tif ,
convert to CMYK using the various GCR settings, and label the
documents with the Text tool. When completed you should
have the original RGB document and five CMYK files using the
five different GCR settings. Close the original
Printer_Test_File.tif that was in ColorMatch RGB.
12. With the five CMYK documents still open, select Window-
Arrange-Tile so you can easily examine the same area of
each CMYK file. What you will need to do is select each
document, one at a time, and examine just the Black
Channel. The quickest way to do this is to use the
Command/Control 4 key command. Command/Control and