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Setting Up Soft-Proof Colors

In the traditional publishing workflow, you print a hard proof of your document, and visually preview how the colors look. Then you sign off on the proof, and the press operator begins the run. In Photoshop, you can use color profiles to soft-proof the document. Color profiles are a way to display the colors of a specific device directly on your monitor. While not exact as a hard proof, it can go a long way to getting the colors of a CMYK document into the range of the output device. It's important to understand that the reliability of the soft-proof is directly dependent on the quality of your monitor. When you soft-proof a document, you're temporarily assigning a color profile to the document.

Understand How to Soft-Proof Colors

Open a document (to use soft proofing, the document does not have to be in the CMYK color mode).

Click the

View menu, point to

Proof Setup , and then click

Custom .

Click the

Custom Proof Condition list arrow, and then select from the available customized setups (check with your press operator).

Click the

Device To Simulate list arrow, and then select from the available color output devices.

Select the

Preserve Numbers check box to simulate how the colors will appear without conversion.

Click the

Rendering Intent list arrow, (available if Preserve Numbers is unchecked), and then select from the available options to view how the colors will convert using the proof profile colors, and not the document profile.

Select the

Black Point Compensation check box to map the full dynamic range of the source space (recommended).

Select the

Simulate Paper Color check box to simulate the visual conditions of white paper as defined by the current profile.

Select the

Simulate Black Ink check box to map the full dynamic range of black as defined by the current profile.

To save a customized profile setup, click

Save .

To load a previously saved profile setup, click

Load .

Check with your press operator; in many cases they have profiles set up to match the dynamic range of their presses.

Click

OK .

Click the

View menu, and then click

Proof Colors to view the color profile on the active document.

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