1. Open your image in Photoshop.

2. First, you need to convert the color profile from whatever it is, to sRGB.(Most salons project images via an sRGB projector, so converting to sRGB will keep your colors true.) If you know your image is already sRGB, go to paragraph 5. If it is Adobe RGB(1998) or Prophoto RGB, convert it...

3. With your picture still open in Photoshop, click on Edit > Convert to Profile. You will get a dialogue box similar to this:




(If the Source Space already says sRGB, click cancel, and proceed to paragraph 5)

4. 'Source Space' describes the color profile of your image as it is. In the image above, it is Adobe RGB(1998).
'Destination Space' describes the profile you will be converting to. Make sure you use exactly the one shown above.
In the box called'Conversion Options', leave 'Engine' as it is. 'Intent' should read Relative Colorimetric'. 'Use Black Point Compensation' should be ticked, as should 'Flatten Image to Preserve Appearance'.
Now you can click OK. Your picture will now have the correct color profile, and will be flattened. You can ignore the rest of this tutorial and go straight to paragraph 8.

5. If your picture was already sRGB and you didn't need to convert it, but it has layers, you will need to flatten it.

6. The left hand picture below shows the panels usually found at the right hand edge of the screen. The lighter panel at the bottom is your 'Layers" panel. At the top right of this panel, circled in red, is a symbol, click on it.

7. You should now see a dialogue box as in the middle picture above. Click on 'Flatten Image' which is underlined here in red.
This will cause all your layers to become one layer called 'Background' as shown in the right hand picture above.

8. Next, you need to resize your picture. Click  here  to go to the next step.

Graeme Webb
Dec 2009