Using Custom ICC Color Profiles

If you or your printing company work in a color-managed workflow, you will want to substitute custom-made ICC color profiles in place of one of the supplied or manually made custom CMYK profiles for use in your gamut conversions. These custom ICC profiles can be substituted for the RGB and/or CMYK Working Spaces standard choices in the Color Settings dialog box. Follow these steps:
1. Copy a custom profile onto your computer hard disk. I suggest you create a folder into which you can place all of your custom profiles, or you can place any new color profiles into the default Adobe color settings folder:
◆ In Windows, right-click a profile and select Install Profile. Alternatively, copy the profiles into the WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color folder (Windows XP) or the WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\color folder (Windows 2000).
◆ In Mac OS, copy profiles into the /Library/ColorSync/Profiles folder or the /Users/username/Library/ColorSync/Profiles folder.
2. After installing color profiles, be sure to restart Adobe applications.
3. Choose Edit ➢Color Settings ➢Working CMYK ➢Load. The Load dialog box appears.
4. Navigate to the location of your color profile, select it, and click the Load button.
5. Save this profile as a part of your custom color settings as shown previously.