In the 4.0 book manual, it says you can open a printing inks setup dialog
box, to change your entire settings for how photoshop adjusts the gamma for
the individual channels of color. This way, you can compensate for the
prevalent unwanted color cast you may have when translating monitor viewing
to printout. But in the 7.0 computer help, it only says how you can adjust
the gamma levels for ONE image. And so you have to save the settings, and
remember to load them AGAIN, EVERY time you open a new image! Does anyone
know how you can actually calibrate your SYSTEM, using photoshop 7.0? (My
computer is Compaq Presario Windows XP, monitor FP5315, scanner HP
scanjet3970, and printer Epson stylus photo 1280, using photoquality inkjet
paper.)
You calibrate your system via device specific color profiles. The profile
for your monitor which comes with your system is a good starting place. The
profile for your printer and paper which comes with the priniting program is
also a good starting place. If you need to change the colors as you
described above, the printer software has a means for this task. If you
still have a color mismatch between your monitor and your printer, then you
need to create your own profiles. Adobe Gamma may be satisfactory for your
monito, but you need to buy a profiling program (Monaco or Colorvision) to
create profiles for your printer. Photoshop V4 was quite primitive; things
are much more compex these days because the tasks are inherently complex.
Jim