Saving and loading custom working space profiles

If none of the working space options in the Color Settings dialog box accurately describe the color space of your particular output or display device, you can create a custom RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, or Spot working space profile. Saving your custom profile ensures that you can reuse it and share it with other users and other Adobe applications that use the Color Settings dialog box.

You can also load a profile that has not been saved in the recommended profile location, so that the profile appears in the Color Settings dialog box.

To save a custom working space profiles:

1. Do one of the following:
• In Windows, choose Edit > Color Settings, and select Advanced Mode.
• In Mac OS, choose Photoshop > Color Settings, and select Advanced Mode.
2. Create a custom working space profile by doing one of the following in the Color Settings dialog box:
• Choose Custom RGB from the RGB menu. In the Custom RGB dialog box, give the custom profile a name, and then specify the gamma, white point, and primaries options. Click OK.
• Choose Custom CMYK from the CMYK menu. In the Custom CMYK dialog box, give the custom profile a name, and then specify the ink options and separation options. Click OK.
• Choose Custom Dot Gain from either the Gray menu or the Spot menu. In the Custom Dot Gain dialog box, give the custom profile a name, and then specify the dot gain curve.
• Choose Custom Gamma from the Gray menu. In the Custom Gamma dialog box, give the custom profile a name and then enter a value for the gamma.
3. Depending on the custom profile you created, in the Working Spaces area of the Color Settings dialog box, choose one of the following:
• Save RGB from the RGB menu.
• Save CMYK from the CMYK menu.
• Save Gray from the Gray menu.
• Save Spot from the Spot menu.
4. Name and save the profile. Profiles can be saved to the system profile location (depending on the operating system) or to (Windows) Program Files/CommonFiles/Adobe/Color/Profiles or (Mac OS) Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles. On Mac OS, the profiles can also be saved to the user-specific Application Support folder as well.

To access a saved profile, you may need to load it or restart Photoshop. If you do not save a custom profile, it will be stored only in the custom color settings file of which it is a part and will not be available as a profile option in the Color Settings dialog box.

To load a custom profile:

1. Do one of the following:
• In Windows, choose Edit > Color Settings, and select Advanced Mode.
• In Mac OS, choose Photoshop > Color Settings, and select Advanced Mode.
2. In the Working Spaces area of the Color Settings dialog box, choose:
• Load RGB from the RGB menu.
• Load CMYK from the CMYK menu.
• Load Gray from the Gray menu.
• Load Spot from the Spot menu.
3. Locate and select the desired profile, and click Open.

If you load a profile that has been saved outside the recommended location, it temporarily replaces the Other option in the Working Spaces menu until another profile is loaded.