Re: Photoshop 6 Changing Black to Gray; Cookbook; and Flexo Profiles
Re: Photoshop 6 Changing Black to Gray; Cookbook; and Flexo Profiles
- Subject: Re: Photoshop 6 Changing Black to Gray; Cookbook; and Flexo Profiles
- From: Bill Whitfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:39:06 -0800
Greetings,
Photoshop 6 changing black to gray - Mark, I tend to read my digests in
clumps and just now read your question and some of the answers. Here is a
solution that has worked for us to get blacks and tints of black to
reflect the same values when open in Photoshop 6 as they did in
Illustrator or Quark. In Photoshop Color Settings under CMYK settings
select Custom and set dot Gain to 0%, Separation Type to GCR and Black
Generation to Maximum. You can then save this as one of your Color
Setting setups. Open the Illustrator file in Photoshop as a grayscale
with Anti-Aliased UNCHECKED. If you check it you will get an outline
around your elements of a lesser black value. However with it UNCHECKED
you will also get type that appears to be thinner than might be desired
so I suggest you place a small stroke on the type in Illustrator (sorry,
out of luck with Quark on the "stroke it" tip) before opening the file in
Photoshop. Hope this helps.
Cookbook - Thanks for the tips on how to get it to print. Seems I was not
holding my mouth correctly when I first tried to print it as when I tried
the next day (we shut down our computers - a California energy saving
thing - it printed fine. (Henrik - you are "so right on dude" with your
comment to provide more information about the workflow being used when
something does not work as expected. Funny how I forget to include
information I certainly expect others to give me when they have a problem
- shame on me!! :) Just for the record my workflow was from Acrobat 5 to
a Tektronix 780 laserwriter printer through a ColorCentral OPI printer
server, using Laserwriter 8.7...and as started before it did print.
Flexo profiles - Thanks to those few who responded. I spend 3 days in a
training class at ITEC for ColorBlind Pro. I had purchased a copy of it
when they were going through "troubled times" and had never been really
pushed to make it work as my company was not ready to embrace an ICC
workflow. We are now.I learned A LOT in the class and found it very
beneficial. As a running coach said to me once "if you want to run fast
you have to run fast". With the new knowledge from the class and all the
great information "you all" share so freely, (albeit most times at a
level that is above my head and continues to give me opportunties to
learn - thank you!!), from all points in the world I am ready to "run
fast" in an effort to make and apply ICC profiles.
-Bill- "A Flexo Guy" aka "master of the run on sentence"
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