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Hi and Welcome to PSG
I would imagine that would depend on what's been printed and who's doing the printing
Take a look here
http://www.color-management-guide.com/photoshop-color-settings.html
I would imagine that would depend on what's been printed and who's doing the printing
Take a look here
http://www.color-management-guide.com/photoshop-color-settings.html
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Tom Mann
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PS - if you are not used to working in other color spaces, don't have a calibrated monitor, etc., it's all the more reason to stick with sRGB. There are too many ways to make errors when working in either CMYK or large gamut spaces like ProPhoto.
HTH,
Tom M
HTH,
Tom M
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Hi tonedeaf -
Several thoughts:
1. In years of trying (because of the lure of their low prices), never once have I gotten good color out of any xerox-based color copier at similar office supply stores here in the USA.
For business graphics, and just playing around, their output might be (barely) acceptable, but don't think such printers will ever give you a reasonable chance of matching the colors you would see if you viewed the file on a good, externally calibrated color monitor. There are huge holes and biases in the colors that xerox-based color copiers can produce.
2. The situation is a bit better if your office supply store is making the prints on an inkjet (not a xerox-technology based) printer. In principle, most modern inkjets can produce very nice colors. The problem is that to do so, they need to be kept on a diet of good inks, and high quality, photo quality paper. In addition, they must be periodically serviced and their color output measured (aka, "profiled") and then adjusted (aka, "calibrated"). In reality, most office supply stores that have inkjets scrimp on doing such maintenance.
3. Even if you learn how to use wide gamut color spaces (eg, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB) properly, and if your store knows how to properly handle files submitted to them in these color spaces, any improvements theoretically possible by their use will be completely masked by the likely quality of their printers. Even worse, if they don't know how to handle image files in Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB, the results can easily be horrible. This is why sticking with sRGB is a good idea.
Bottom line for items #1, 2, and 3: Have your images printed at a store that is used to printing photos of people. The reason is that if they don't give people accurate skin tones, they probably won't see much repeat business, and skin tones are a very good indicator of how well other colors will be produced. Here in the states, believe it or not, big box stores like Walmart will usually beat office supply places in print quality, and often are only somewhat behind dedicated photo stores when it comes to producing good colors. An even better option is to use any of the on-line photo printing services, Snapfish, Mpix, White Horse, Nations, or those reviewed favorably in places like: http://www.toptenreviews.com/services/multimedia/best-digital-photo-printing-services/
4. The dialog box in PS where you have set "Color Preferences" to "Europe General Purpose 3" is nice, but it really is for people who either use multiple Adobe applications besides Photoshop (eg, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) OR use multiple printers (eg, sometimes inkjet, sometimes different offset presses, etc.) and want to set the defaults for these various scenarios. Even worse, there are many other places in PS (or Lightroom, or Camera Raw) where you can easily (ie, without you noticing) override your "Europe General Purpose 3" defaults. So, my recommendation is that you stick with this default group of settings, but you ALWAYS double check that:
(a) before you start work on an image, you check that your working color space is sRGB; and,
(b) when you finish work on an image, and are about to write a file to take to the printer, you AGAIN check that any file to be printed is also in sRGB.
Note, (b) is much more important than (a).
HTH,
Tom M
Several thoughts:
1. In years of trying (because of the lure of their low prices), never once have I gotten good color out of any xerox-based color copier at similar office supply stores here in the USA.
For business graphics, and just playing around, their output might be (barely) acceptable, but don't think such printers will ever give you a reasonable chance of matching the colors you would see if you viewed the file on a good, externally calibrated color monitor. There are huge holes and biases in the colors that xerox-based color copiers can produce.
2. The situation is a bit better if your office supply store is making the prints on an inkjet (not a xerox-technology based) printer. In principle, most modern inkjets can produce very nice colors. The problem is that to do so, they need to be kept on a diet of good inks, and high quality, photo quality paper. In addition, they must be periodically serviced and their color output measured (aka, "profiled") and then adjusted (aka, "calibrated"). In reality, most office supply stores that have inkjets scrimp on doing such maintenance.
3. Even if you learn how to use wide gamut color spaces (eg, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB) properly, and if your store knows how to properly handle files submitted to them in these color spaces, any improvements theoretically possible by their use will be completely masked by the likely quality of their printers. Even worse, if they don't know how to handle image files in Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB, the results can easily be horrible. This is why sticking with sRGB is a good idea.
Bottom line for items #1, 2, and 3: Have your images printed at a store that is used to printing photos of people. The reason is that if they don't give people accurate skin tones, they probably won't see much repeat business, and skin tones are a very good indicator of how well other colors will be produced. Here in the states, believe it or not, big box stores like Walmart will usually beat office supply places in print quality, and often are only somewhat behind dedicated photo stores when it comes to producing good colors. An even better option is to use any of the on-line photo printing services, Snapfish, Mpix, White Horse, Nations, or those reviewed favorably in places like: http://www.toptenreviews.com/services/multimedia/best-digital-photo-printing-services/
4. The dialog box in PS where you have set "Color Preferences" to "Europe General Purpose 3" is nice, but it really is for people who either use multiple Adobe applications besides Photoshop (eg, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) OR use multiple printers (eg, sometimes inkjet, sometimes different offset presses, etc.) and want to set the defaults for these various scenarios. Even worse, there are many other places in PS (or Lightroom, or Camera Raw) where you can easily (ie, without you noticing) override your "Europe General Purpose 3" defaults. So, my recommendation is that you stick with this default group of settings, but you ALWAYS double check that:
(a) before you start work on an image, you check that your working color space is sRGB; and,
(b) when you finish work on an image, and are about to write a file to take to the printer, you AGAIN check that any file to be printed is also in sRGB.
Note, (b) is much more important than (a).
HTH,
Tom M