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Photoshop Essential Color Settings. Where To Find Photoshop's Color Settings. In Photoshop, the color settings are found under the Edit menu. Go up to the Edit menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen. Then, choose Color Settings: To open the color settings, go to Edit > Color Settings. The Color Settings Dialog Box. The Color Settings dialog box will open.
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If you've never seen the the Color Settings dialog box before, it can look intimidating at first. But as we'll see, most of Photoshop's default color settings are fine.
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In fact, there's really only one setting we need to change: Photoshop's Color Settings dialog box. The New Darker Dialog Box. The Color Settings dialog box may look different on your screen depending on which version of Photoshop you're using. Adobe made dialog boxes darker in the most recent versions of Photoshop CC. Photoshop CS6 and earlier uses lighter dialog boxes. The particular shade of gray you're seeing makes no difference.
The color settings are the same. Also, in Photoshop CS6 and earlier, some of the more advanced color settings are hidden by default. You can access them by clicking the More Options button. However, we don't need to change any of the advanced options, so you can safely leave them hidden. The Default Color Settings Preset. By default, Photoshop uses a preset collection of color settings known as North America General Purpose 2. If you're in a different part of the world, your preset may be named something different.
If it is, that's okay because we'll be making our own change anyway: The default . A working space tells Photoshop which color space to use for different situations. For example, Photoshop uses one color space for displaying images on screen. But it uses a different color space for print. A color space determines the range of colors that are available. Some color spaces offer a wider range of colors than others.
The particular range of colors that a color space offers is known as its color gamut. There are four options (four different situations) listed under Working Spaces. These options are RGB, CMYK, Gray and Spot. Of the four, the only one we're interested in is the first one, RGB. That's because RGB is the one Photoshop uses for displaying our images on screen. The other three options (CMYK, Gray and Spot) have to do with commercial printing. For our purposes here, and unless you're working with a commercial printer, you can leave all three options set to their defaults.
The RGB Working Space. Let's look at the RGB working space. RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue. It's the working space Photoshop uses for displaying and editing images.
Red, green and blue are the three primary colors of light. Your computer monitor, smart phone, tv and every other type of screen is an RGB device.
RGB devices mix different amounts of red, green and blue light to display every color we see on the screen. Photoshop also uses RGB.
It uses color channels to mix different amounts of red, green and blue to display all the colors we see in our images. The exact range of colors that Photoshop will reproduce is determined by the color space we've chosen as our RGB working space. By default, Photoshop sets the RGB working space to s. RGB: Photoshop's default working space for RGB is s. RGB. The s. RGB Color Space. The s. RGB color space was created back in 1.
Hewlett- Packard and Microsoft. It was designed as a standard based on the range of colors available on a typical low- end computer monitor. Even today, most monitors can only display the s. RGB range of colors. Because of that, s. RGB is the default color space for the web. Digital cameras typically have their default color space set to s.
RGB. In fact, many photographers are unaware that there's a Color Space option buried in their camera's menu. Your home inkjet printer is set up to receive s. RGB images by default. And even commercial printing labs will usually expect you to save your images in the s. RGB color space. For all of these reasons, Adobe decided it was best to set Photoshop's default RGB working space to s. RGB. After all, s. RGB is the safe choice.
But the safe choice isn't always the best choice. When it comes to image editing in Photoshop, . The reason is that, of all the RGB color spaces we can choose from, s. RGB contains the smallest range of colors.
The Human Eye vs s. RGBTo help illustrate the problem, let's look at a graph. This graph shows the color range available to us when working in the s. RGB color space. The outer, curved area represents all the colors the human eye can see.
It's not a true representation because it doesn't show brightness values. But it's still enough to give us a general sense of what's going on. Inside the larger shape is a small triangle. The area inside the triangle represents the s. RGB color range. None of the colors outside the triangle are available in s. RGB. This means that many of the richer, more saturated and more vibrant colors, especially in the greens and cyans, are unavailable in the s. RGB color space: A graph showing the colors we can see (outer shape ) and what s.
RGB can display (inner triangle). The Adobe RGB Color Space. While s. RGB is by far the most widely- used RGB color space, it's not the only one. And, because it offers the smallest range of colors, it's also not the best one. A better choice is Adobe RGB (1. Created in 1. 99. Adobe (which explains the name), Adobe RGB offers a wider range of colors than s.
RGB. It's original purpose was to help our photos look better when printed. Even though printers can print far fewer colors than the number of colors available in s. RGB, they can reproduce more of the deeper, saturated colors our eyes are capable of seeing.
Many higher- end inkjet printers have the option to switch from s. RGB to the Adobe RGB color space so our prints can benefit from the extended color range. Digital cameras are also capable of capturing far more colors than what's available in s. RGB. So many cameras these days, especially high- end DSLRs, have the option to change their default color space from s. RGB to Adobe RGB.
If you shoot JPEGs, Adobe RGB will allow your photos to preserve more of the scene's original colors. If your camera supports the raw format, and you capture your images as raw files, the Color Space setting in your camera makes no difference.
Raw files always capture every color the camera sees. However, Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw, the tools we use to process raw images, both use Adobe RGB as their default RGB working space. The Human Eye vs Adobe RGBLet's look at another graph, this time showing the range of colors available in Adobe RGB. Once again, the outer shape represents all the colors we can see. The triangle inside the shape represents the range of colors Adobe RGB can reproduce. Notice how much larger the triangle is this time.
While s. RGB encompasses about a third of the visible color range, Adobe RGB contains roughly half of all colors our eyes can see. Most of the difference is in the greens and cyans, as the triangle extends much further into those areas than it did with s. RGB. Where the s. RGB color space is limited to more muted tones, Adobe RGB can produce richer, more vibrant colors: A similar graph showing the extended color range of Adobe RGB. Should You Switch From s. RGB To Adobe RGB?
Many digital cameras can capture images in Adobe RGB. Many inkjet printers can reproduce colors that are only available in Adobe RGB. There are even high- end computer monitors these days that can display nearly all of the Adobe RGB color range.
So, should you switch Photoshop's RGB working space from s. RGB to Adobe RGB? In most cases, the answer is yes. Adobe RGB offers a much wider range of colors than s. RGB. So if your camera can capture them and your printer can print them, why limit Photoshop to the smaller, more muted s. RGB color space? Reasons For Choosing s.
RGBThere are a few reasons why you may want to choose s. RGB instead. As we learned earlier, s. RGB is the safe choice.
Computer monitors, cameras and inkjet printers are all set to s. RGB by default. Also, s. RGB is the color space for images and graphics on the web. If you primarily display your photos online, you may want to stick with s. RGB. If you're a web designer, again s. RGB may be a better choice. And, if you're brand new to Photoshop and all this talk about color spaces is too confusing, there's no harm in leaving Photoshop set to s.
RGB. While s. RGB may lack the more vibrant and saturated colors of Adobe RGB, it still contains a wide enough color range to produce stunning and amazing looking images. Reasons For Choosing Adobe RGBHowever, if you're a photographer and you want your photos to look their absolute best, especially when printed, Adobe RGB is the better choice. If you shoot in the raw format, both Camera Raw and Lightroom use Adobe RGB as their default color space. It makes sense, then, to set Photoshop to Adobe RGB as well. Even if you display your images on the web, there's no reason not to edit them in Adobe RGB. They'll benefit from the expanded Adobe RGB color range during the editing process. And, when you save them later using the Save for Web dialog box, Photoshop will automatically convert your images to s.
RGB. In other words, if you just want to play it safe, choose s. RGB. In pretty much every other case, Adobe RGB is the better choice. Setting Photoshop To Adobe RGBTo start taking advantage of the expanded color range of Adobe RGB, all we need to do is change Photoshop's RGB working space. For best results, check your digital camera and inkjet printer to see if they support the Adobe RGB color space. If they do, you'll want to set them both to Adobe RGB: The RGB working space has been changed to Adobe RGB. The Color Management Policies. Now that we've set Photoshop's RGB working space to Adobe RGB, there's one set of options we should quickly look at.
Those are the Color Management Policies. Even though we've set Photoshop to Adobe RGB, you may still find yourself opening images that were saved in s.