[Cogito]

Greetings,

I'm currently using Photoshop 7, and noticed if I take a screen shot of my desktop and paste it into Photoshop, the color is a bit off. So I look in the color management and it is on Web Graphics Default. But if I turn off color management, the color looks fine on the screenshot. My question is, should I use color management or turn it off? What is your color settings?

Thanks in Advance


-Cogito

[Godwin]

off?
i dunno, so dont take that

[ July 28, 2002: Message edited by: Godwin ]

[Asurfael]

Well, I've got colour management off. Has been working fine for me.

[faB]

If you are going to do artwork to be displayed on the screen, I dont think you need the color management anyway.

I dont really understand this thing about web-safe colors, hell it's 2002, I assume most people have a decent CRT screen capable of showing your jpegs in any color you choose.

[ July 28, 2002: Message edited by: faB ]

[zerorage]

For those that have it off, how often do you view your images on different computers? Or take an image and have someone else use it in a layout and compare the two on different monitors? I'm curious how often the colors come out the same. Please post if you have done this or have any past experiences.

The good news is that color management is not that difficult, the bad news is that is has some manual configuration that has to be done throught out the workflow. Usually each element ( the image, the monitor, the printer) all need to have color profiles set for them.

If you don't plan on using this image anywhere else, then there isn't much need for color management. If you plan to publish it on web/print or anywhere else besides the computer you made it on, then color management is your best choice. Do you have your monitor color profile setup correctly? If so you could assigning that to the image and see how it helps. The web default i'll assume is sRGB - that profile was created by testing a large sample of the monitors available and taking an average. You can always play with the Assign Color profile option ( check the help, i don't remember the menu path), as it will change the profile but not the image data. Be careful with convert ot profile as it will change the image data. ( you can test this by setting a sample point and exploring)

[ July 28, 2002: Message edited by: zerorage ]

[groovedude]

To me, color managing is very important. I create digital artwork for clients.

So I need to make sure colors are going to stay consistant on the monitor, in Photoshop, and on my Epson.

I use "sRGB" as my color profile. It has a dynamic range in Photoshop and my Epson Photo 1200 printing software has the ability to print sRGB.

I also create websites, and I've never had a problem working in sRGB. As was stated earlier to hell with "web color safe."

Now, when you send a file to be printed commercially that's a different story. You will have to convert the file to CMYK. If you change the mode in Photoshop on a RGB image it'll turn to crap. So you have to do some color managing on the sRGB-such as liberally increasing the Saturation and Brightness. Then convert to CMYK.

I still don't know how to color correct very well, infact I will probably put up a post asking for advice.

Hope that helps, just sharing my experiences.