The following exercise explores both options. You’ll
learn how to load a CMYK profile, should you be so
lucky as to procure one. I’ll also show you how to edit
the CMYK options to create your own profile. And fi-
nally, you’ll see how to convert the image to CMYK and
save it in a format that either QuarkXPress or Adobe
InDesign can read.
- Open the test image. For consistency’s
sake, we’ll be using the same composi-
tion we used in the preceding exercise. So
open The Joy of Color.psd from the Lesson 12 folder
in Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1. Make sure to open the
original PSD file, not the TIFF file that you saved
in Step 3 on page 474. - Choose the Color Settings command. Choose Edit→
Color Settings or press Ctrl+Shift+K (�-Shift-K) to
display the Color Settings dialog box, pictured in
all its gruesomeness in Figure 12-11. - Click the Fewer Options button. If you see a button
in the dialog box labeled Fewer Options (instead of
More Options), click it. Although not an essential
step, this will help to simplify things a bit by reduc-
ing the number of options shown in the dialog box. - Load the CMYK profile provided by your
commercial print house. In this exercise,
your print house happens to be the highly
esteemed and completely fictional Prints-R-Us. Click
the words U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 to the right
of the first CMYK option to display a pop-up menu
of CMYK profiles. As in Figure 12-12, choose Load
CMYK to load an ICC profile from disk. Locate the
file called Prints-R-Us profile.icc in the Lesson 12
folder in Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1. Then click the
Load or Open button to make the profile part of
Photoshop’s color settings. - Click the OK button. Photoshop closes the Color
Settings dialog box and accepts your new CMYK
settings.
Figure 12-11.Figure 12-12.Preparing a CMYK File for Commercial Reproduction 433