How can i determine which color settings to select?

In photoshop the proper color setting depend on the final destination of the image, if you are printing to an inkjet printer you wont use RGB as you working space and if you are working for the web you should use the RGB but if have an image it will be placed in layered program such as Indesign then you want to consider using CMYK.

In photoshop under the Edit menu you will find the “Color Settings”, Generally speaking the “sRGB IEC” as an RGB working spaces is proper for web graphics and printing to a four colors inkjet printers, if your printer inkjet have six or more inks considering using “Adobe RGB (1998)”. In the “Color Management profiles” generally you want to convert to your working space, you will preserve better profile or if we turning a file to another computer that uses a different working space, you can turn off the gray color management if you are working with a grayscale images. Remember the “More Options” button if you are looking for a specific color space you don’t see in the list click on the More Option button and it will bring out all of your various color setting. You will also see that you have the choice rendering in tint when converting between color spaces, Generally speaking you want either to use “Relative calorimetric” or “Absolute calorimetric”, “Saturation” should be reserved for powerpoint slide and like “Perceptual”, Generally is not properly for working photographic images and photoshop.

In photoshop you want to consider the save for web options, We are working with Save For Web from the file menu, you have a little menu in the up right corner there you can select “Uncompensated Color” and will working with JPEG you will not use ICC profile since most web browsers can’t see the profile.

So let say that you really need to convert the image to a different color space go to the “Assign Profile” in the Edit menu that gives you the options of picking any of the available color profile and adding this information as a tag to the image, the colors in the image not actually converted just the ICC profile assigned in the image data.

Or u can use “Convert to Profile” from the Edit menu and actually change the colors of the pixels in the image to match your proper color space to including, but you will use convert to profile when working with the web or when embedding an image into a page layer program, and use assign profile for all other working photoshop.

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