Re: Photoshop CS "?'s"

Hi Scott,

Are you using Photoshop to just work with grayscale files and print
negatives?

I had the same experience with Mac based upgrade to Photoshop CS—you end up
with both versions. I think this was true in the past though too. It makes
sense though with such an upgrade to build it from the ground up.

<< 1. Under settings, should I choose "U.S. Prepress Defaults" and Adobe RGB
(1998)?>>

Adobe 1998 is a good colorspace to work in with Photoshop, a lot of people
use it. I think once you set your color settings, you will end up with
"Custom" showing rather than US Pre-press.... but that is a fine place to start—with
the defaults it sets and then tune everything the way you want it.

<<2. Under RGB, I see settings for Canon CanoScan FS4000US (my film scanner)
and Epson Stylus Photo 1280 (my printers). Should I choose one of these for my
RGB setting?>>

No, for your RGB setting you want Adobe 1998 as you mentioned above. You
wouldn't want your scanner profile or printer profiles as a working space, they
might provide you with a rather weird working space. You could use
Colormatch, but most people use Adobe 1998.

<<What should my CMYK, Gray, and Spot settings be?>>

CMYK: try U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2, though my guess is you will probably
never do anything that will use this—CMYK is for pre-press work. Are you doing
full color gum or something like that where you use CMYK mode?

Gray: Try either Gray Gamma 1.8 or Gray Gamma 2.2—it would make sense to
use what you used in Photoshop 7, more so, if you were always saving your files
before with one of these profiles embedded in them. Then you won't have to
mess with a conflict between your gray scale working space and the embedded
profile every time you open one of your older files.

Spot Settings: Try Dot Gain 20%, though again for making negatives, this
will probably not be an issue.

Hope this helps. There is a pretty good help file on Color Settings and
Color Management that comes with Photoshop. If you are strictly scanning and
printing in gray scale, much of this has little meaning.

Mark Nelson

In a message dated 12/13/03 5:03:59 PM, smwbmp@starpower.net writes:

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> Hi all,
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> After recently doing a major upgrade to my PC (yeah, I know), I decided to
> upgrade from Photoshop 6 to Photoshop CS. I ordered the UPGRADE directly from
> Adobe yesterday (12.12.03) and recieved it today (12.13.03). I preformed the
> install and to my suprise I now have working copies of both Photoshop 6 and
> CS on my computer. Has anyone else found this after doing the upgrade?
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> Now to the really hard questions: I use Photoshop, for the most part, to
> make enlarged negatives on 2 Epson 1280's with Westjet film; one with MIS
> dye-based inks and the other with MIS GP archival inks (I was using the MIS
> hex-tone inks but could never get good prints from them and the tubes kept
> clogging). In setting up the color management for the CS version I had a few
> questions:
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> 1. Under settings, should I choose "U.S. Prepress Defaults" and Adobe RGB
> (1998)?
>
>  
>
> 2. Under RGB, I see settings for Canon CanoScan FS4000US (my film scanner)
> and Epson Stylus Photo 1280 (my printers). Should I choose one of these for
> my RGB setting?
>
>  
>
> 3. What should my CMYK, Gray, and Spot settings be?
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> Thanks in advance,
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>
> Scott Wainer
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> <A HREF="mailto:smwbmp@starpower.net"> smwbmp@starpower.net</A>
>
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Received on Sat Dec 13 20:42:10 2003