Re: Elements - Colour Working Space
- From: "Mike Russell" <RE-MOVEmike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:12:53 GMT
"Mardon" <mgb72mgb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns980CDFEE16989mgb72mgbhotmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I posted this question a week ago in adobe.photoshop.elements but got
no response. Can anyone here help?
Subject: Colour Management - Colour Working Space Question
From: Mardon <mgb72mgb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: adobe.photoshop.elements
I'm asking this question for my sister who uses Elements 2.0.2 but
does not have access to this newsgroup. I use CS2, and I'm not
familiar with Elements, so I don't know where to tell her to look in
Elements to change settings. It sounds to me like she has a problem
with her colour working space not matching her original images. She
doesn't get a warning prompt when an imported image does not match
the working space (like I would get in CS2). If she opens a non-
colour managed image, or an sRGB image, in Elements, the colours look
washed out compared to what she sees if she opens the same image in
her web browser. If she opens that same image in Corel Photopaint
12.0.0.536, it looks just like the image looks in her web browser.
Can someone provide instructions for how she can configure Elements
2.0 to solve this problem.? TIA
Here's all she needs to know:
Press ctrl-shift-K to bring up the color management dialog.
Select "Limited Color Management - Optimized for Web Graphics"
This will set her default color space to sRGB, which will get rid of the
problem with the colors being washed out.
The engineer in me can't resist also giving a longer answer. Your sister's
Elements 2 is currently set for "Full color management", which assigns the
Adobe RGB profile to images that are not tagged with a color profile. The
result is that sRGB images are being interpreted as Adobe RGB, resulting in
washed out colors. Changing the color management as described above causes
Elements 2 to treat untagged images as if they had an sRGB profile embedded,
and the colors will be normal.
"Full color management" causes Elements to create new images using the Adobe
RGB profile, and to default to tagging new images when they are saved. The
"Limited Color Management " option creates new images based on the sRGB
profile, and defaults to saving new images with no profile. The Save dialog
also has a check box to explicitly control whether the image's profile is
embedded or not. Elements 2 always preserves the original profile of any
opened images that are tagged with a profile.
Although Elements 2 normally does not directly display an image's color
profile information, you may access this information by opening the file,
and then using "File>Save As...". The name of the image's profile, if any,
will be displayed in the save dialog next to a checked box. If the box is
not checked, the image had no tagged profile, and it will have been assigned
either sRGB or Adobe RGB, depending on the color settings.
--
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/
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