11 Replies Latest reply: Jul 26, 2009 10:27 PM by Bill Lamp RSS

    ProPhoto RGB

    Chrsitian Community Member

      I  am running CS4 Extended and I can not find ProPhoto RGB in the drop down menu "Device to Simulate."  Any help would be appreciated.

        • 1. Re: ProPhoto RGB
          Bart Cross Community Member

          Should be under "View/Proof/Custom" not sure what you mean by 'Device to simulate'

          • 2. Re: ProPhoto RGB
            Chrsitian Community Member

            Once you get to "View/Proof/Custom" you getto Device to Stimulate, and that [my] drop-down menu there does not have ProPhoto RGB - or should I say, I don't see it.

             

            Many thanks!

             

            c

             

             

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            • 3. Re: ProPhoto RGB
              Bart Cross Community Member

              Sorry about that, if ProPhoto does not appear, then it is not installed, you should be able to find it on your CD under the goodies dir, if not those files are on this site somewhere, maybe someone knows where.

              • 4. Re: ProPhoto RGB
                Chrsitian Community Member

                Thanks Bart, I will give it a go!

                 

                christian

                • 5. Re: ProPhoto RGB
                  Bill Lamp Community Member

                  I got mine years ago direct from the Kodak site.

                  • 6. Re: ProPhoto RGB
                    Chrsitian Community Member

                    Thanks Bill, I will give that a try - I also contacted Adobe Support, I think it is supposed to come with CS4.

                    • 7. Re: ProPhoto RGB
                      Bill_Janes Community Member

                      ProPhotoRGB can be downloaded from various sites, but that is not really necessary because you can construct the profile yourself in a couple of minutes. You merely go to the color settings dialog and use the RGB Working spaces to define a custom profile, which you can name ProPhotoRGB. You then fill in the proper values as shown and save the profile. The values are shown, but can be looked up on Wikipedia. Sometimes a custom profile is useful for specialized needs. You might want a ProPhotoRGB with a gamma of one if you need a linear space.

                       

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                      • 8. Re: ProPhoto RGB
                        Chrsitian Community Member

                        Wow Bill, thanks a million - that gets me into an area of Photoshop that I have not worked with - a new chanllenge, many thanks!

                        • 9. Re: ProPhoto RGB
                          Bill Lamp Community Member

                          Thank you. I'm glad to have been of help.

                           

                          ProPhoto makes one heck of a difference. You will enjoy it as "recent" (last 5-10 years) photo printers have passed Adobe RGB in color range. The recently dead Epson 2200 sure could make use of it. I found much better coverage in the reds, yellows, and oranges.

                           

                          Not needing to check, if it actually is on the Photoshop CD, that would be the place to start looking. Much easier than worming your way deep into Kodak's site.

                           

                          Bill

                           

                          Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:59:11 -0600

                          From: forums@adobe.com

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                          Subject: Photoshop Windows ProPhoto RGB

                           

                          Wow Bill, thanks a million - that gets me into an area of Photoshop that I have not worked with - a new chanllenge, many thanks!

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                          • 10. Re: ProPhoto RGB
                            Chrsitian Community Member

                            That is great - I have an Epson Photo R2400 - so that should help!

                            • 11. Re: ProPhoto RGB
                              Bill Lamp Community Member

                              Off topic, sort of. But all were ProPhoto so...

                               

                              I did some tests by printing a 16 bit version of a yellow flower and the same picture at 8 bit color depth. Adobe's conversion of 16 to 8-bit before sending it to the Epson showed, in print, more detail than the "pre-converted" one.

                               

                              I tested the two, side by side using consecutive sheets of paper from the same box, with people who did not know what I had done and they all picked the 16-bit print file picture as having more detail and said it looked better. I have no idea why or how there was a difference; just that there was. THIS was with an Epson 600. I have not repeated it and that was several versions of Photoshop ago. It may not be valid now.

                               

                              This is against everything I have read on the forum.

                               

                              Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:02:30 -0600

                              From: forums@adobe.com

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                              Subject: Photoshop Windows ProPhoto RGB

                               

                              That is great - I have an Epson Photo R2400 - so that should help!

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