Establishing Your Settings for Photoshop

After you have calibrated your monitor (see the preceding section) and adequately arranged your work environment, you need to nail down the color settings and make sure that they’re the right match for your intended output. Choose Edit➪Color Settings (Preferences➪Color Settings on the Mac). The intimidating Color Settings dialog box rears its ugly head.

As you’re perusing the dialog box, hover your cursor over any item, and a great description of that item appears at the bottom of the dialog box.

In the Color Settings dialog box, you can choose from predefined settings established for specific types of output, or you can customize your own settings to fit your individual needs. And there’s no law that says that you can’t have multiple groups of settings — one for each type of project. Maybe you create both Web and print graphics. In that case, you may want to have a set of options for each workflow.
The following sections offer more details about the settings you can choose in the Color Settings dialog box.