[MS Word] What color profile?

So I've been working on this article the last 2-3 weeks now and deadline is tomorrow. This a school project and the article must be handed over pr mail and in a word document.

And I have take a photo to use on the front page, and I'm wondering what color profile should I use for this? I tried sRGB -> CMYK - U.S Web Coated SWOP v2. And while it looked ok in the word file, the photo looked awful viewed in a standalone application. (Apple Preview)


Now this a very important article so this has to be done correctly.

Grimnar,

If you are printing this on a normal inkjet printer or getting it printed by a photo lab, there is no need to use CMYK, normal sRGB is fine. Only when you are having documents printed (as in Newsprint/magazine/boo​k publishing) might you need to do this, but even then it should be done in consultation with whoever is going to print it.

Of course any photographs need printing differently to text, but I assume you know that. Also be aware that many browsers know nothing about colour management.

Yeah, great. So then I will reassign back to sRGB profile. And it should work great?
Thanks for the fast reply!

Grimnar,

As the printer set up for photographs are so different to text. I think I'd try to arrange those on seperate pages of the final document to the text, rather as a lot of books do. Then you can use better quality photo paper and different printer settings. Printers often do it that way, I'm sure you've noticed. You can buy double sided photo papers so you don't have to have blank pages.