Adobe Photoshop CS3 and NTSC
Once again I cannot stress the importance of meeting the NTSC color safe colors in your productions. Using Photoshop is a reality in today’s productions and meeting the standards set by the FCC for broadcast is a very important task if you edit for television. All televisions today are built to meet these specifications. You need to make sure that your black levels are set to 16 or 7.5 IRE and the absolute white never exceeds 235 or 100 IRE. To make sure that you always are within specifications you need to go to the levels adjustment.
1. Go to Image in the top toolbar and navigate to Adjustments.
2. Navigate to Levels and open the Levels dialogue box.
3. At the bottom of the box you will see output levels and change them to 16 for the low and 235 for the high.
Just remember the 16 equals 7.5 IRE and 235 is equal to 100 IRE.
