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Angie M. Nemanic
 

PHOTOSHOP CS2 USE AS TRIAL


I just downloaded photoshop cs2 as a trial period for 30 days. I am using a book called "photoshop cs2 for digital photographers" by Scott Kelby, which is a great book!, to learn some tricks. One of the suggestions he says is to change the color settings from the default which is srgbiec61966-2.1 because he says it's horrible. Well, I changed it to the adobe RGB 1998 and when I saved my document as a pdf file the thumbnail was completely black. In addition when I went to save as the color option wasn't RGB, it was the default and I couldn't change it. Does anyone know why this didn't change? I can't figure out why and why there was no option.

I'm worried that all the time I spent retouching the photo is wasted and it won't print properly. I want to print it as my final 10 & 15 print and send it to my lab which tells me I have to the print in a valid ICC profile which the lab lists as either of the two I've mentioned. Which is correct?

Before I downloaded this software for a trial I was using photoshop 6.0. When I changed the color setting according to Kelby's book, ever time I went to save, regardless of the extension, the default was changed to the Adobe RGB (1998).

Will the trial not let me make this change?

Any help is appreciated.

Angie


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March 19, 2006

 

Craig m. Zacarelli
  Hmmm I never worried about the color for printing.. when I print I just make sure that the shot looks as good on my screen as it can then I print it out.. I get great prints from this. I allways make the shot the out put size I want then I set the dpi @ 300... dont know if it makes a difference as I have heard some say it does and some say it dont... but I figure.. if it aint broke dont fix it.. and I have been doing this for a few years so I will keep on doing this when I print.
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March 20, 2006

 
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