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| Soft proof your image. |
| Choose View > Proof Setup > Custom. Choose your custom printer profile from the Profile pop-up menu. Select Preview to view the conversion changes onscreen, and click OK. You can toggle soft proofing on and off as you work by choosing View > Proof Colors. |
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| Soft proofing shows you onscreen how your image will look printed. Your printer, not your monitor, produces the finished product, so your monitor needs to reflect the printout. The soft proof feature depends on some printer driver settings: Using your custom profile, soft proofing displays the image using the ink and media conditions in place when you printed the test page for the custom profile. If you've changed a setting in the printer driver, the color may not be as you expect. |
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| Take advantage of Photoshop's powerful editing features to help you attain accurate color while you soft proof. Color casts are easily removed by targeting the individual channels in a Levels or Curves adjustment layer. These adjustment layers are the best way to lighten and improve the contrast in your images, as well. Or you can use the Hue/Saturation or Color Balance adjustment layers, or the Variations feature to modify your image's color. |
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| Print your image. |
| Choose File > Print with Preview. Make sure that Show More Options is selected. Choose Color Management from the pop-up menu directly under Show More Options. Click Document under Source Space to set the profile associated with your image as the source profile for the color conversion to your printer colorspace. Under Print Space, choose your custom printer profile. Choose Perceptual for the Intent, and click Print. If the color is not as expected, try Relative Colorimetric for the Intent. |
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| Be sure to turn off the color management option in the printer driver; in the printer driver's settings look for an Advanced button or tab that contains an option for color management or color adjustment. See your printer's documentation for assistance. If you don't turn off the printer driver's color management option, you use two color managment systems; this doubles the changes made to the image and can destroy the printed color. |
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| Adjust settings if necessary. |
| If the colors don't print as you expect, you might need to make additional changes to the image, as suggested in Step 4. |
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