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Adobe InDesign 2.0/Photoshop 7.0/Illustrator 10.0

Color management made easy

Traditionally, color management has involved long, arduous processesand a fair amount of ngercrossing. With the lastest releases of Adobe design applications, however, getting consistent color is a simple process. All these applications use the same interface and color settings les for color management, so you can be sure that the colors you see in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and 7.0 will appear the same in Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe InDesign 2.0, and even Adobe Acrobat 5.0. For information about creating or obtaining proles, see chapter 4 of the Photoshop 6.0 user guide, chapter 7 of the Illustrator 10 user guide, or chapter 13 of the InDesign 2.0 user guide.

2. Customize a color settings le.

Choose Edit > Color Settings in InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator. From the Settings pop-up menu, choose the predened color settings le that most closely resembles your workow. Then specify the proles for your devices in the Color Settings dialog box. Click Save and name the custom color settings le. To ensure that InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat can access the settings le, save it to its default location: Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Color/Settings folder (Windows) or System Folder: Application Support: Adobe: Color: Settings folder (Mac OS). You might notice minor differences in the Color Settings dialog box in these applications. In InDesign, you need to select Enable Color Management before you can specify settings. In Photoshop or Illustrator, select Advanced Mode to see more elds in the dialog box.

1. Create or obtain color proles for your devices.

Assemble accurate ICC proles for each of the devices you use: scanners, monitors, digital cameras, printers, and so on. You may be able to use the proles provided by device manufacturersbut individual devices often vary from the default proles, so custom proles give you the most accurate results.

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Color management made easy

Predened color settings les are each designed to provide consistent color in a particular publishing workow under typical conditions. In some cases, the predened settings les provide sufcient color management. However, you can achieve the most consistent color using ICC proles created for your specic devices.

3. Apply the custom color settings le in each application.

When you open the le in another Adobe application, apply the same color settings: In InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, choose Edit > Color Settings; in Acrobat, choose Edit > Preferences> General, and then click Color Management in Acrobat. Choose the le you named from the Settings pop-up menu. You may want to modify the settings for elds not included in the saved color settings le. For example, Photoshop is the only application that designates a working space specically for spot colors, so if the color settings le was saved from InDesign, the default Spot working space is selected in Photoshop. If you regularly print to different devices, or work with different input devices (such as scanners or digital cameras), you can create additional color settings les that are customized for those workows. Save each le with a name that clearly states its purpose, so that you can identify it easily. By default, Photoshop and Illustrator embed the proles designated in the Color Settings dialog box when you save a le in native format or as a PDF, JPEG, or TIFF le. If color management is enabled in InDesign, InDesign embeds proles when you save a document or export it to PDF.

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