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What are Color Profiles?
What are color profiles (in Photoshop) and how do they actually affect the printing?
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How to make a color APPEAR the same on different backgrounds?
Background on color perception:
Due to the nature of the human eye and visual processing by the brain, there's an optical illusion that the same color will look different depending on the background. ...
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How to get standard results in colour management in Linux
I have recently calibrated and profiled my screen, with a ColorHug device.
I'm using Gnome, and have the profile installed through gcm.
When opening an image in GIMP and DigiKam, the results are ...
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Photoshop Color Settings for web design
What color profile settings should be used in Photoshop for web design? Does monitor calibration effect save for web images?
I keep my monitor calibrated with a colorimeter and want to make sure my ...
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Share colors between CS5 programs (Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, ..)
I'm looking for a good workflow to use the same colors in, for example, a new file in InDesign or Illustrator.
is there a "best practice" workflow to use the same colors in different programs?
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What color profile should I use when designing for iPhone?
We're working with Photoshop CS5 on Mac (OSX Lion) and would like to see the colors on the Mac exactly like they will look on the iPhone. Does anybody know what color profiles we should use and how to ...
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RGB and CMYK: Why both?
Any of you who have at least little experience with graphic design software, photography or professional printing, must have -almost undoubtedly- have gone through this: 'the struggle' of RGB and CMYK ...
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What should I do regarding color profile when designing for the web?
I have read this article by Doug Avery where he explains how to disable Color Management in Adobe Photoshop and the follow-up article in response to the uproar of the commenters arguing against it and ...
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Is there an equation to easily convert a color to its matching color in another hue?
I am trying to design a site with a couple color schemes. I am looking for a way to make color schemes that match mathematically.
For example, I know that #FF0000 matches perfectly with #00FF00 and ...
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Photoshop color weirdness after calibrating LCD
I've just purchased a calibrator (Eye One Display 2) to calibrate my two screens, because the difference of colours between them was huge. Now that I've calibrated them, the colours are almost ...
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Can you convert a neon RGB color to CMYK for printing?
I have a logo that was done with RGB colors, now I have to work with this logo to do something for printing purpuses, the problem is that in the RGB version of the logo I have a shade of green I ...
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Right color balance MAC vs Windows
I've designed a web page on a Mac computer. When testing it on windows in appears with something like 20% less saturation. The page is public, for the web, so the final user may have any kind of ...
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Color differences between Mac and Windows, How to set color profile scheme on Windows to get same colors of Mac?
I'm developer; I use Windows but my designer uses Mac. Whenever he sends a graphic file to me (.psd and .ai files) the colors show differently on Mac and Windows, even if I take the color code from ...
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Colors in PNG inconsistent between Windows and Mac
I have a PNG file on my Windows machine of a proposed logo that someone sketched out in PowerPoint. I am tasked with making a master version in Illustrator, and then saving various copies for web use, ...
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Differences in color conversion (RGB to CMYK) / How to choose Corporate Color
I figured out that there are possibly more than one methods to convert RGB to CMYK.
Using Adobe Illustrator CS6 (Mac) the color conversion is completely different as the conversion via Wolfram Alpha. ...
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Calibration and Photoshop Color Settings
I use Windows 7. I calibrated my monitor with ColorMunki and use this profile as my default monitor profile. It looks great as I see the difference between non-calibrated and calibrated. Colors and ...
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Photoshop CS6 Colors Look Terrible!
I just installed Photoshop CS6 for the first time (after coming from CS5). I tried taking a screenshot of a website I like to sample the blue color in the screenshot, but as soon as I paste it in ...
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How to make an image's color look consistent across different applications?
One time I had some images for buttons for users to click on, and they looked bright and sharp on a Mac's Preview app, and on some other graphics apps on the PC, but when it was displayed on Chrome on ...
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Color wash out problem when I connect my laptop to a projector or LCD monitor
I have a critical problem when i connect my laptop to a projector. Colors that I have used in my website are getting washed out when it's displayed on the projector screen.
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Canvas and Save for web colors mismatch in Photoshop
The colors of my Photoshop canvas are not the same as my Save-to-Web output.
For example, #0000FF:
I know there is something set wrong in the color profiles, but I can't figure out what is is.
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Pasting screenshot changes colors in Photoshop CS3
I've done search after search, messed with color profiles, image color management, etc, but I still find that when I simply print screen and paste it in Adobe Photoshop CS3, I get a much lighter ...
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In Illustrator CS5, why are my colors dull when I export to png?
I'm having an issue with Illustrator CS5 that I've seen mentioned in many, many forums, but I haven't found an answer that has fixed my problem.
When I use Save for Web & Devices... to create a ...
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Proof printing for the web
I had this debate with a colleague and we didn't see anything solid or something from a search that would answer this with certainty so I thought I would open it here. You are designing a website or ...
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When I export an image from Illustrator, why is it a slightly different color in the exported image?
I have a web design layout in AI that I'm trying to slice up into HTML/CSS. I'm having trouble keeping the colors the same in the exported files as they are in Illustrator.
When I open it up in ...
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Why can't I select 'Monitor RGB' in Proof Setup of Photoshop or Illustrator?
I'm trying to get a consistent look between my web and Adobe suite. At the moment, colors are vastly different, being washed out in photoshop and illustrator.
My understanding is I can simply go into ...
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Inverted colors on opening PDF in photoshop
When opening this PDF in Photoshop(CS3) all colors are automatically inverted.
How can I change this behaviour? The file has correct colors when opening it with Adobe Acrobat.
The file is generated ...
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Contrast Color with Red [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Need help with the Color Combination for the Red
Can some one help me to find a color that contrast the color Red HEX: cd0001
I am looking for something i dark rang of ...
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Illustrator: color differences between AI and PDF (profile?)
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 ...
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Need Guidance for Color Profile Settings in Illustrator
What is the best color profile to start with in Illustrator when designing a Logo that will be used for web and for print? Do you need to work on them in two different files, one with CMYK profile and ...
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How do I export a JPG with the same color profile as my Photoshop workspace?
I created a design for a webpage in Photoshop and got all the colors looking perfect.
However, when I export it to a jpeg and view it outside of Photoshop the colors are completely different. If I ...
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Design a website with box content type [closed]
I want to design a website. The reference site will be this site. Here you can see the contents are inside the boxes and the page contains three column layout. I need this kind of website with a good ...
