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Setting Up Color Management

Just about everything in QuarkXPress's Color Management Preferences dialog box can be found in InDesign by selecting Color Settings from the Edit menu and then turning on the Enable Color Management option (it's turned off by default). If you've used Photoshop much, you'll find the settings here pretty familiar (see Figure 87-1). We've outlined the differences between these features and XPress's in Table 87-1.

You can, of course, select a Settings preset that matches your work-flowlike U.S. Prepress Defaults or Europe Prepress Defaults, each of which fills in the rest of the dialog box for you. If you've already got this set up properly in Photoshop or Illustrator, it's probably best to choose the same setting you used there. In fact, you can save the color settings from those programs to disk and then click the Load button to import those settings into InDesign.

If you decide to customize the options, they're divided into three groups:

• Working Spaces. Defines the RGB and CMYK profiles which are used for non-color-managed and newly created documents that are color managed.




• Color Management Policies. Defines what happens when object colors need to be converted from one colorspace to another. We generally recommend that you leave these at their default settings.




• Conversion Options. Provides finer control over color conversions by letting you specify the color engine, rendering intent, and black point compensation. These choices show up only if Advanced Mode is turned on. These are advanced options that should be left at their default settings, especially for print work. They can be overridden for individual objects using the Image Color Settings command in the Object menu.

The biggest mistake people make in attempting a color-managed work-flow is to avoid making a custom ICC profile for their monitor (screen). If you want to even begin to trust what you see on screen, you

must make a profile for it. You don't necessarily have to calibrate the monitor; but you do want to use something to characterize it (make a profile of it), such the Spyder (from OptiCal)or at least eyeball it with ColorSync (on the Mac) or Adobe Gamma (on Windows).

Table 87-1. XPress's color management features versus InDesign's

Color Managing Imported Graphics

You can enable or disable color management for imported images individually, either as you place them or after they're in the layout. The process is very similar to what you would do in XPress. To control color management as you place an image, choose the Place command from the File menu and turn on Show Import Options in the Place dialog box. After you click Choose, select Color Settings from the Image Import Options dialog box. Now you'll be able to specify the profile and rendering intent used by InDesign for this image in the document.

To control color management for an image already on the page, select it and choose Image Color Settings from the Object menu (see Figure 87-2). Again, the profile and rendering intent for the image can be changed here. The Enable Color Management option is different than XPress's Color Manage to RGB Destinations; InDesign's option completely includes or excludes the image from all color management, such as for CMYK images already with the correct color values for the destination press.