Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Fig. 2-2 The Document
Profile indicator is
accessed from this pop-up
menu found under all open
Photoshop documents. In
Photoshop CS2, this
information also can be
displayed in the Info
palette after selecting
Palette Options and
clicking the Document
Profile check box.
thing about the document's color space, therefore when no embedded
profile is present, Photoshop makes the assumption based on the color
settings. Should the color settings be set so that the RGB working space
is Adobe RGB (1998), any untagged RGB document opened in Photo-
shop will be assumed to be in Adobe RGB (1998) even if it is not in that
color space! This is a critical point to understand once we begin to look
at the color settings in detail.
It is useful to know the current color space of any open document,
and Photoshop has several methods of alerting us to this information.
The status box that is available in the lower left of each document
window can be set to show the Document Profile , which will identify the
document's color space as seen in Fig. 2-2. Simply click the status box
and toggle it from Document Sizes (or any setting it may be on) to Docu-
ment Profile. In Photoshop CS2, the color space of a document can be
optionally shown in the Info Palette. It's a very good idea to have one or
both set to show you the current document color space.
Photoshop Color Settings
The color settings in Adobe Photoshop have to represent the largest,
feature-crammed dialog in the entire application. The Photoshop color
settings are accessed in the color settings preferences menu (Edit-Color
Settings) or Command/Control-Shift-K. Because there are a great
number of items in this dialog, to minimize the size of this window and
reduce some additional user configuration options, there is a check box
at the top called Advanced Mode in Photoshop CS and More Options in Pho-
toshop CS2. When the check box is applied or the More Options button
clicked, the dialog box is expanded. For this discussion, it should be
expanded so we can investigate all the options. My advice for viewing
any complex-appearing Photoshop dialog is to break it down into sec-
tions and look at each section piece by piece. It becomes far less daunt-
Search WWH ::




Custom Search