by Damien Symonds | Sep 2, 2020 | Colour Management, Printing
Many labs, on their websites, don’t mention your Photoshop settings at all; but some give very specific advice about how your Color Settings should look. These guidelines vary a little from lab to lab, but generally these two are common: They tell you your RGB...
by Damien Symonds | Feb 2, 2017 | Colour Management, Printing
If you’re a photographer looking to order press-printed products (eg business cards, photo books, calendars, etc) you might find it confusing that some labs ask for CMYK files, and some ask for RGB* files. Why? They might ask for RGB because … they know...
by Damien Symonds | Aug 4, 2016 | Colour Management
This is a vexing problem that a lot of people encounter. You get ICC profiles from your lab to use for soft-proofing, you install them in the correct folder exactly as instructed, you restart Photoshop, you open a photo then open the Custom proofing window, and...
by Damien Symonds | Jan 3, 2016 | Colour Management
This article updated July 2020 This page used to contain a complex twisty-turny troubleshooting workflow for figuring out why photos looked different from Photoshop when you posted them on Facebook. I’m very pleased to say that in 2020, both Facebook and the...
