Setting Color Settings in Photoshop

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Setting Color Settings in Photoshop
Choosing the right color profiles for your working space and files
To ensure the best possible consistency for the colors in your design, it is very
important that Photoshop’s ‘Color Settings’ dovetail with the printing process. By
choosing the following settings, you can use a color suite consistent with the printing
process and you will be warned if the file has no embedded profile.
Color Settings
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To set the Color Settings, choose ‘Edit>Color Settings’ in the menu at the top of the
screen.
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The following window pops up:
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You then choose ‘Europe Prepress 3’ from the ‘Settings’ option.
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This changes the ‘Working Spaces’ to ‘Adobe RGB (1998)’, ‘Coated
FOGRA39 (ISO 12647-2-2004)’ and ‘Dot Gain 15%’. The ‘Color Management Policies’ also change.
Lower down in the window, deselect the options for ‘Profile Mismatches’
(‘Ask when opening’ and ‘Ask when pasting’) but keep ‘Ask when opening’
selected at ‘Missing Profiles’.
A message will then pop up if a file without an embedded profile is opened
in Photoshop.
The ‘Assigning a Color Profile in Photoshop’ information sheet will help
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you if you have any problems with a missing profile.
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