I've just calibrated my Samsung SyncMaster 244T with EyeOne Display 2 and
created a monitor profile. Should I use it as the Photoshop working color
space now?
Thanks.

No. Your working space should usually be a color space with well-behaved characteristics such as black and white points being equal RGB values, as well as the values for grays. Your monitor profile won't be that way. Your monitor profile will let Photoshop display colors accurately, but for editing images, use a working space suited to the kind of editing you are doing.

Are you editing in CMYK, doing printing, video, editing from film scans, etc? The best working space will depend on the source image and the eventual output for it.

Most people use Adobe RGB(1998) as a good compromise for a working space. Some prefer sRGB which works well for on-screen viewing of output but less well for print media and/or when images contain very saturated colors. Photographers working from transparency film often use Ektaspace as their working space.

So my monitor profile is just for the OS, and photoshop should use either
sRGB or Adobe RGB, or whatever color space specific to the output
destination.

So, say, if I plan to edit some files for a video slide show that I'm making
using ProShow Producer I should edit those files in one of the NTSC color
spaces and save that profile with the files.

I used to just leave them in sRGB and saw some weird color results watching
those slide shows on TV.

Thanks a lot for your info, Christopher.


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> No. Your working space should usually be a color space with well-behaved
> characteristics such as black and white points being equal RGB values, as
> well as the values for grays. Your monitor profile won't be that way. Your
> monitor profile will let Photoshop display colors accurately, but for
> editing images, use a working space suited to the kind of editing you are
> doing.
>
> Are you editing in CMYK, doing printing, video, editing from film scans,
> etc? The best working space will depend on the source image and the
> eventual output for it.
>
> Most people use Adobe RGB(1998) as a good compromise for a working space.
> Some prefer sRGB which works well for on-screen viewing of output but less
> well for print media and/or when images contain very saturated colors.
> Photographers working from transparency film often use Ektaspace as their
> working space.