Color Settings

[Roy]

I've had a time lately getting the color settings correct. My workflow has developed to LightRoom with some editing in CS3. Using ProColor RGB in LightRoom if I edit a tiff file from there to CS3 I see it changing to SRGB. I guess I'm not understanding the color profiles but I know what I see displayed and somewhere in this conversion I'm loosing the color balance. The colors go from brilliant to flat. I see how to adjust it back in CS3 but I don't want to have to go through this everytime.

What are your color balance settings and what have you done to resolve this color balance issue?

[jeffkohn]

In Photoshop CS3, goto Edit -> Color Settings.

-Set the RGB Working Space to Prophoto RGB.

- In the "Color Management Policies" section, set all three drop-downs to "Preserve Embedded Profiles".

-Also check all 3 of the checkboxes in that same section (Ask when opening/pasting).

Once you do that, you shouldn't have to worry about Photoshop quietly doing any conversions behind your back. Not only will your working space match what Lightroom expects, but if you open/paste a file that doesn't match your working RGB it will prompt you asking what to do (with the default choice being to preserve the embedded profile, which is almost always what you want to do).

[Roy]

Thanks Jeff, so far it looks like this will work. I just had to adjust the ones where I compensated for the color, Should be good from here on.