I don’t know much about color management even though I read a lot about it today. I know a computer needs calibration in order to render colors accurately, but as an amateur, I don’t have the tools or the budget for that. And I’m not sure it would solve my problem anyway. All I need … Read more
I have an .ai document, this is my working document. ! want to export it to PDF (to be portable but still vector), the problem is the color are all messed up and seem washed out (in spite the fact I included the color profile): If I export it as PNG the colors are correct: … Read more
Please help me understand how OS X Mavericks renders colors (or else how the Digital Color Meter app reports them). Following Bjango’s advice on Photoshop color configuration for OS X, I found my way to this this tutorial on OS X color management, which included this PNG image which offers a grid of supposedly pure … Read more
Is there a setting in illustrator that will make all of my colors, in all new projects, RGB? I’m not really sure why it often ends up as grayscale. I only use RGB for web assets and having to change if for small shapes all the time makes me sad. Show me the magic setting … Read more
There is an insane amount of confusion between linear and non linear response to color mappings, it depends on the drivers, the software, the hardware, the settings in your applications, what kind of algorithms are being implemented and probably and infinite set of other things. Assuming that I can open an image or I’m in … Read more
My question is related to this one: What’s the point of converting RGB images to CMYK TIF/TIFF before placing them in InDesign? I am preparing some artwork in Illustrator, which contains some bitmaps created in Photoshop. The printer has asked for PDF format, 300dpi CMYK with ‘no embedded colour profile’. I am unsure of the … Read more
I edited a picture book using scribus, color management enabled, with CMYK TIFF images and corresponding profile as input. In principle my screen has been calibrated, though more than one year ago. I set the output : to PDFX-1a, for “printing”, with a CMYK print profile ; to PDF-1.5, for “web”, with a “compatible with Adobe RGB … Read more
I have opened a jpg file in Photoshop CS6 and have converted it from RGB to CMYK (it’s going to be printed in a booklet), and I am now trying to edit out the red eyes using the red eye tool. When I try to do this, it gives me an error message saying it … Read more
Here I’m using the same color settings for both Illustrator and Photoshop and the same color for my shapes – #0441f0, but they look very different. Any ideas? Take a look at the screenshot. Left is Ai, right is PS: Answer From your screenshot, and going by the amount of dulling on the blue in … Read more
Sometimes when I have a PSD I’m working on, and I flatten it and do an incremental save, I save as PNG instead of PSD because (1) the file can be opened even without Photoshop on another machine, (2) it is obvious that it’s flat from the file extension alone, and (3) PNG will result … Read more
