Photoshop and Color Management - Color Management for Photographers - page 64

ing this way. The Color Settings is divided into six sections (four when
the Advanced/Expanded Mode is off). Let's look at each section from top
to bottom in order.

Section 1: Settings

The top of the dialog has a pop-up menu called Settings . Numerous pre-
installed and custom-saved settings for the rest of the entire dialog can
be accessed here. When a user first launches Photoshop, there will be a
number of preset options below the Custom menu; for example, Color
Management Off , Emulate Acrobat 4 , Europe Prepress Defaults , and so on. Each
setting configures all the subsequent options in this dialog. These color
setting presets can be created and saved as a .csf file by Photoshop and
shared with others. 2 Notice in Fig. 2-3 that there is a setting named AR's
Default . I configured all the color settings as I wanted them, and clicked
the Save... button, which opened a Color Settings Comments dialog
window. Here I can add specific information about this custom setting,
which will appear at the bottom of the Color Settings dialog. If a user has
an ICC profile selected in the custom color settings, that profile actually
is saved within the .csf file so that loading this setting also installs the
ICC profiles being used—handy! The color settings in Adobe Photoshop,
InDesign, and Illustrator are quite similar. If you understand how the
color settings in Photoshop operate, you'll have no problem using the
color settings in Illustrator or InDesign. Photoshop has the most options
of the Adobe applications, therefore, set up Photoshop first, save the set-
tings (if custom), and load these into InDesign or Illustrator.
New in Photoshop CS2 is the addition of a new application called
Bridge . The idea of Bridge is to allow multiple Adobe applications in the
Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, etc.) to work with documents
much the way the File Browser does in Photoshop CS, but with far
greater flexibility and features. Bridge has so many new features that I
expect entire chapters in upcoming Photoshop topics will be devoted to
the new capabilities. From the standpoint of color management, it is
worth mentioning that Bridge can be used to synchronize color settings
across the entire Adobe Creative Suite when installed. Color Settings
installed by Photoshop and other Adobe applications can be accessed
directly in Bridge and configured as seen in Fig. 2-3. Selecting one of the
color settings in Bridge will update color settings in all applications in the
Adobe Creative Suite.

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This settings folder will be found in the following locations: under Mac OS X in
the main system library (Library-Application Support-Adobe-Color-Settings);
under Windows (Program files-Common Files-Adobe-Color-Settings folder).
Photoshop CS2 additionally will install some .csf files in a folder called Extra-
Settings inside the Settings folder shown earlier.