icc profiles question re: canon i9900

i am so "dumb" on this topic im embarassed.
but i did just get CS3 and im reading books about photoshop....
In Scott Kelby's book he shows how to add icc profiles but he uses an Epson.


Anyway, i have a canon i9900 hoked up to a new iMac. when i was "playing" around in one of the printer dialog boxes i saw about 4 canon icc profiles.

Any idea what i do with them? is this something i should stay away from unless i know exactly what im doing. I am not going to use adobe RGB.
Anybody have any "steps" to follow regarding this?


windoze
ps id be so appreciative for the help!

Each profile is setup with a specific paper and ink combo for your printer. Just select the one that matches what you are using. Simple as that.

In2Photos wrote in post #3602973
Each profile is setup with a specific paper and ink combo for your printer. Just select the one that matches what you are using. Simple as that.

lol, nothing is simple in this hobby...

if i may a few more questions....

so if im going to use these icc profiles and im "not" using aRGB, do i still let Photoshop determine the colors?

laslty if i screw this up is everything reversible back to the way it was?


troy

windoze wrote in post #3603025
lol, nothing is simple in this hobby...

if i may a few more questions....

so if im going to use these icc profiles and im "not" using aRGB, do i still let Photoshop determine the colors?

laslty if i screw this up is everything reversible back to the way it was?

troy

You should be using the profiles regardless of whom is doing the color management. You need to tell the printer or PS what type of paper and ink and this is what the profiles are for.

If you screw it up it can all be fixed. Check out the Color Problems Thread at the top of this forum for more info too.

windoze wrote in post #3603025
so if im going to use these icc profiles and im "not" using aRGB, do i still let Photoshop determine the colors?

As Mike said, you need to install profiles for the paper(s) you're using. Many vendors provide these as free downloads from their web sites. On your Mac, the path for these profiles is:

Boot Drive / Library / ColorSync / Profiles

Put them in this directory, then relaunch PSCS3. (I also strongly recommend a display calibration device, such as the Spyder2Express.) Open your image file, then choose Page Setup from the File menu. Set "Format for:" to the i9900 and choose your paper size and borders. Next, choose "Print..." and let Photoshop manage the color, then from the "Printer Profile" pull-down, choose your paper's profile that you just installed (I use Ilford and Red River papers). Set everything else that you need in this (the Adobe) print dialog box.

At this point, click on the "Print..." button and the Mac OS X print dialog box should appear. You need to set the parameters for this box according to the instructions that came with the paper's profile that you downloaded. If this is a paper that you use often, then you can save the settings and give it a name that you can readily recognize. For example, I have different ones called "RR Arctic Polar Satin", "Galerie Smooth Pearl" and "RR Linen" so that whenever I print with those papers, I simply choose the predetermined parameters from the print dialog's pull-down menu.

If you put them in the directory listed above, they become visible to all programs, even if you have multiple users on your computer. They won't harm anything, but if you want to get rid of them, just drag them to the trash.

Have a read in the link from my sig. There is a link there about Canon ICC profiles (bottom of the first post under 'Printing').
Some other usefull stuff as well