Image saved in CS5 color managed, but printed from CS3

<p>If I have a file I saved saved in CS5/Lightroom 3.5 with color management active and it looks great. <br>

Then I open winXP (I have duel boot setup) but now color management is not active. I open CS3 bring in the image saved earlier in CS5, tell CS3 to open the image in the images own color space, the image looks considerably darker than it looked in CS5, which would be expected with out CM active.<br>

This is a B&W image and I'm going use the Epson ABW driver to print, if I tell CS3 "No Color management" and print with the Epson ABW driver, would Epson read the tag from color managed CS5 file and print the image correctly? <br>

I have tested this out, and I think I have this right, but could someone confirm my understanding of color management.<br>

Thanks for any help.</p>

<p><strong><em>If I have a file I saved saved in CS5/Lightroom 3.5 with color management active and it looks great.</em></strong><br>

good.</p>

<p><strong><em>Then I open winXP (I have duel boot setup) but now color management is not active.</em></strong></p>

<p>probably lWindows is not color managed so what you see could be darker and red<br>

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<strong><em>I open CS3 bring in the image saved earlier in CS5, tell CS3 to open the image in the images own color space, the image looks considerably darker than it looked in CS5, which would be expected with out CM active.</em></strong><br>

fact is that you just have to setup your CS3 correctly.. the default value under Color Management is sRGB.. so if you set your CS5 to Adobe RGB or Pro Photo, CS3 will ask you if it should convert, discard, or use the icc profile embeded in the image.. use embed for now, but go into Preference and set your CS3 according to your CS5.</p>

<p><em><strong>This is a B&W image and I'm going use the Epson ABW driver to print, if I tell CS3 "No Color management" and print with the Epson ABW driver, would Epson read the tag from color managed CS5 file and print the image correctly?</strong> </em></p>

<p>Epson will then not use any icc profile (i suppose) and all will be bypass .. but remember that you should do your own BW conversion with all the dodge and burn and love you have, then use ABW to print this masterpiece.. dont let Epson handle the color to BW conversion.. it produce and simple BW like anyone can do with hue / saturation in Ps..</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply Patrick,</p>

<p>OK, here's more info. This is a B&W pano, I'm printing this on a Epson 3800. The reason I'm printing from XP is the fact that the 3800 can only print 37.4" long and my pano is 42" long. I'm using a App that allows me to print longer than 37.4" thus the need to print from XP and CS3<br>

The problem is the fact that my color management software isn't active in XP anymore. All of the editing was done and saved in CS5 (Win7 64 with color management active)<br>

If I tell CS3 to manage color and use sRGB as the profile (this is how I'd setup the ABW driver in CS5) and don't forget, color management isn't active in WinXP (this is were I have CS3) the print I get is dark, just like what I see on the non color managed screen. But if I set CS3 to "No Color Management" and print with the ABW driver, the print looks as it did when I saved it in CS5 with color management active (CS5 runs on Win7 64 with color management active)<br>

The bottom line here, I don't want CS3 applying any color management at all, I just want my print to look the same as it did when I saved it in CS5.<br>

So my question, does the file saved in "color managed CS5" have some kind of tag that tells the Epson driver to print the image the way its was saved in CS5, regardless of the fact that there isn't any color management active in CS3?<br>

Sorry, I hope I didn't confuse anyone, this is hard to explain. </p>

<p>you are correct.</p>

<p>with CS3 you should use No Color Management option in Ps to print via ABW. If you print from CS5, you need to select Adobe RGB as your print profile, then use ABW.. that should give you the same result.</p>

<p>not really explain well on epson web site.. but trust me, it is the way to get good print ; )</p>