help needed with colour settings please

[happy chick]

Hi all, can someone help with the various colour settings on my pc please as I seem to have mucked them all up.

I use photoshop 2 and looking at the colour settings in the edit tab i have these

monitor colour
adobe rgb
cnyk set to Us web coated v2
grey set to gamma 2.2
spot set to dot gain 20%

colour mangement policies set off
conversion options is Adobe ACE
relative colourmetric

I have no idea what all these mean but suspect they may be default settings and if so do they need to be altered or kept as they are?

any help would be great

[wolfie]

The following are my setting for Web use. Also have a read here http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps9_colour/ps9_1.htm

[Craftysnapper]

I have to ask..are you really using Photoshop 2 ?

This was released in 1991 and was only Mac platform compatable.

Also Photoshop was not colour managament compatable untill Photoshop 5 in 1998.


If you mean Photoshop CS2 then Woofies suggestion is fine bit instead of sRGB I use Adobe 1998 RGB for a wider gamut.

[Gidders]

I'm guessing its Photoshop CS2

[nirofo]

Adobe 1998 RGB is fine if you want high quality prints or for publication and your monitor, printer etc are colour calibrated to match each other. On the other hand, if the main use of your images is for the web or emailing, or the occasional A5 print then you should use SRGB as your standard otherwise your web colours will be very different to the way you saw them in Photoshop (any version).

nirofo.

Originally Posted by Craftysnapper

I have to ask..are you really using Photoshop 2 ?

This was released in 1991 and was only Mac platform compatable.

Also Photoshop was not colour managament compatable untill Photoshop 5 in 1998.


If you mean Photoshop CS2 then Woofies suggestion is fine bit instead of sRGB I use Adobe 1998 RGB for a wider gamut.

[Craftysnapper]

Originally Posted by nirofo

Adobe 1998 RGB is fine if you want high quality prints or for publication and your monitor, printer etc are colour calibrated to match each other. On the other hand, if the main use of your images is for the web or emailing, or the occasional A5 print then you should use SRGB as your standard otherwise your web colours will be very different to the way you saw them in Photoshop (any version).

nirofo.

True, but if you have photoshop its easer to convert a copy of your image to srgb for web or emailing with no loss in quality, but not possible the other way round as you cannot put colour information back.

[happy chick]

I definately replied to this last week but my response doesnt seem to be there so guess its operator error!

Yes I meant photoshop CS2- sorry!

Will go with wolfies settings and see if it makes a diff. I am just trying to get my third party prints to be a lot nearerto what I see!