[John Gunselman]

A friend of mine has a Spyder2 express colorimeter and he let me use it to calibrate my monitor. Apparently this entry-level unit sets up a monitor to conform to the industry standard sRGB. In Photoshop when I go to color settings under the “edit” menu should I select in “working spaces” the monitor profile Spyder2 created or should I select Adobe RGB (1998)? I was under the impression that sRGB was primarily for web based work not pre-press and my monitor now apparently matches sRGB. Again, the end result here is colorized B&W photos…am I being too concerned about all this?

[John Gunselman]

Also, can you suggest a program or item I can get to achieve better monitor calibration than Adobe Gamma which I now have in Windows control panels?

[John Gunselman]

Thanks again, Richard,I also would like guidance on one other question. As I mentioned, the original B&W photos are TIFF files. Once I bring them into Photoshop and change them to a color mode for colorizing, should I save them as TIFF files or as Photoshop PSD files?

[John Gunselman]

Thank you, Richard. How worried should I be though about color shift when going from RGB to CMYK? Again, these are original B&W shots that I’m colorizing, but I certainly don’t want the end result to become muddy or quite different from the colors I assign them in the colorizing process.

John