Re: Color in Photoshop vs Quark
Re: Color in Photoshop vs Quark
- Subject: Re: Color in Photoshop vs Quark
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:20:42 EST
email@hidden wrote...
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>>Maybe I'm missing something here. As I understand it, I should be able to
set my profiles across all (ICC) programs, and get a similar, if not real
close matching of colors. I can't seem to get my Photoshop files to print
the same from Quark as they do from Pagemaker, Photoshop, or InDesign.
Designers I've talked to say they don't bother with the color management and
they instead adjust the file in Photoshop so it prints well in Quark.<<<
You've said it, you should be able to match colors between the apps. But
alas, your so called color management is lame. It's misinterpreting and
misunderstanding color values from your apps.
1. If you need to deliver a project sooner as opposed to later, you could
turn off color management for the time being and get back to basics. The
tried and true method to match colors across your apps is to get ripped color
values printed from your various imaging devices. This is usually done using
Pantone libraries such as the 1000+ coated stock colors printed in cmyk and
rgb from their respective devices. If no CMS interferes, all the major apps
deliver the same values in cmyk and rgb when ripped to a TIFF on Windows or
Macintosh. You can then use these values to match perfectly between apps,
platforms, vector elements and raster, even Pantone, cmyk, and rgb provided
certain old school settings and rules are used ie: Photoshop 4 default, Apple
RGB color space, don't use rgb values in Quark or Illustrator, don't use a
TIFF in Illustrator 8 or 9, etc. (all common stuff). The maxim being, "If you
can measure it, you can control it." A profile is certainly made by
measuring, but where, when, and to what elements it gets applied has thrown
you a curve.
2. It seems you may need to get with your CMS solution rep and ask how they
match colors not just from input to output, but across apps and though out
the entire work flow including RIPS.
(PS- I'm looking for a solution as well.)
I hope the above spiel helps and invite comments or questions,
-Stephen Ray
(PSS- No synonyms found for spiel.)