Questions tagged [color-conversion]
Questions about changing colors from one color space to another, most often to match the original color as closely as possible.
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Any free website to convert Pantone 344C to Pantone TPX?
I cant find a website that can get me the closest match in TPX Pantone from Pantone C
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How to use color settings together in Photoshop, InDesign, PDF export for print?
There are color settings in Photoshop, InDesign, and in PDF export within InDesign. How do they work together? I know color is complicated so I tried to keep questions below focused. I get lost in the ...
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X-Rite Color Picker software alternative?
We have a very old Mac running X-Rite color picker. This software is awesome because it converts spot colors to CMYK based on our proprietary icc profile with the ability to limit the conversion to a ...
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Why is 50% black/white is 128, and not 127?
In the RGB color model, color values are represented in the 0-255 range. 0 is not a dummy value, so in the 0-255 range, there are 256 colors.
When using HSL (or something similar), I'd expect 50% to ...
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Best CMYK export option
I am a children's book designer writer. I am trying to format my first picture book for printing. I have worked the images in RGB, but thought I should convert in Affinity before sending to printing....
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How to accurately isolate the hue of an image?
This began as a simple question but got confusing the more I thought about it. I hope somebody here can help me get it sorted.
I was preparing an image texture that was to serve a purpose similar to ...
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How can one transform a neutral lookup table texture for color blindness?
I want to add color blindness support on my Unity game, for this, the Color Grading effect appears to be the way to go.
This is the neutral lookup table, i.e. when applied, nothing changes, it's ...
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I'm trying to replace/change colors in an image
I have this logo that came along with a theme:
On a website, a new branding occurred, and now we have a limited range of colors:
--color-primary-blue: rgb (44, 45, 101);
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How do grayscale values work in an RGB document?
I am trying to understand how channels work. I created a blank 8bit RGB document in Photoshop and filled the background layer with 50% gray. But however, when I navigate to channels and click on R, G ...
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InDesign: Exporting CMYK doc as RGB
If I want to export a CMYK document as RGB, is it best to go into every swatch, and every placed link, and make sure all the colours are set to RGB before exporting?
Or can I just set it to sRGB under ...
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Colour conversion discrepancies between — and within — Adobe apps
I work a lot with brand colours specified as Pantones, but often printed as CMYK. Naturally, I want those conversions to be as accurate and as consistent as possible, and I keep my Adobe applications’ ...
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Best 4-color palette for dithering arbitrary images on screen
Duplicate of this question since society of retro-computing closed it and recommended it to be moved here.
In the good ol'days many computers limit their palettes to 4 to 6 colors instead of 8/16/256/...
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How to change color of this icon?
I've read several tutorials and watched quite a few videos but none of them are working.
I am using GIMP and wanting to change color of this icon to the following hex color.
Hex color - #006b5f
The ...
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Derive a color from another one and a “ratio”?
(Disclaimer: I don't understand well color models.)
For a document, to be typeset thanks to LaTeX, I have:
a “dark” color (DC for short): CMYK(1,.60,.10,0),
a “light” color (LC for short): CMYK(1,.35,...
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When is it really worth it to convert RGB to CMYK (If printers do it anyway!)
Since it is very overwhelming and doubtfully necessary, is it a good idea to depend on printers (RGB to CMYK) auto-conversions to produce usual printing needs? (When Spot Coloring isn't an option for ...
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Inverting photo using pre-defined material colors
I like to use black-backgrounded slides for my conference presentations. However, as research papers use white-backgrounded figures, they should be converted. A good option is inverting the colours. ...
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Changing Color palette and pixelating
I have a photo of my dog and I thought it would be fun for my kids to reproduce it in chalk on our drive way in large scale, then look at it from our up stairs window (and hopefully learn about colors ...
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Theoretical best colors for dithering
It would seem that I'm very bad at explaining myself. This is not unusual, thus this clarification.
Imagine a flip dot display. 2 colors, one or the other, per flip dot or pixel, no substrate, no ...
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Question about what colours fall into the pointers gamut
Absolutely no idea if this is the best place to ask, if not, please point me in a better direction.
Basically, I have been using this software to determine if the pixel colours of an image (the pixel ...
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Trouble converting from sRGB to CIE 1931 XYZ
No idea if this is the right place to ask this, if not, please point me in a better direction.
I am trying to convert sRGB values R:100 G:78 B:94 to XYZ using this site: https://www.nixsensor.com/free-...
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avoiding 'dot gain' : preparing inner sleeve design in illustrator for printing on uncoated stock
I'm preparing album cover artwork -- I'm going to print some vinyl. The mfr recommends a disco jacket as the inner sleeve for 180g vinyl because it resists the vinyl tearing a hole over time. Their ...
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Reproducing industrial system colors (RAL, NCS, Pantone)
Assuming I have access to equipment that gives me ability to measure precise amounts of fluids - is it possible to reproduce colours of any well-known system (like RAL, NCS...) using avialable ...
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Pantone TCX to Coated conversion
I need to convert some fabric colors to ink colors for screen printing. In the past I would use Pantone's X-Ref web utility but they've discontinued it. The only option appears to be paid a premium ...
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What process has been used to derive these "tints"?
I have some brand guidelines.
One of the main colours is #004F6B. The guidance advises the use of "10% tints" to expand the palette. The suggested tints for this colour are:
100% #004F6B
90%...
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Why are even displays with high or complete specific color space coverage not correctly calibrated?
Despite many people asking about calibration, I couldn't find an answer to the following (imo important) question:
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Why are so many displays incorrectly or un-calibrated, in other words inaccurate, ...
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Exporting InDesign PDF with RGB converted to CMYK, colours look dark and muted?
I am working on a publication in InDesign, working on a 2019 Macbook Pro display, in which there are around 300 links to images. Some images are in RGB, and some in CMYK. Here is an example of an ...
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How to make a fading hue animation of a static image?
Say image A is a static portrait drawing of someone. You'd like to make an animation that has no movement of the artwork, but just alternating re-colorations of the portrait in such a way that it ...
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DeltaE lower but color tone/hue different
I'm currently digging into color calculations/ conversions and also work with DeltaE.
Although the mathematical way might be correct, how can I get a better "human accepted" difference?
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Is every Pantone color displayable in sRGB?
I thought this would be asked somewhere before, but I can't find it. So if you have any good links for me to read please let me know.
How much do Pantone (especially Pantone Solid Coated) and sRGB &...
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Export settings for commercial printer when using CMYK-converted pictures
I have pictures that are already converted to PSO coated v3 -profile. Wich settings are correct for the export in this case?
My Indesign color management is set to "Preserve numbers/ignore linked ...
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Converting LAB value from D65 to D50
I'm building a database for the anime cel color(acrylic paint). I scanned them with an Epson Perfection v600 scanner calibrated with Silverfast's advance target, saving in TIFF with ProPhoto RGB ...
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Gold shimmering texture effect for photographs
How to achieve the following gold texture effect for photographs? Does it start with adjusting the Hue to a gold color, but how to get the radial-like shimmering shiny look?
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How to determine final greyscale look of printed color by B&W printer
I need to design a pdf document that can be both readable on a computer and on a paper printed using a "black & white" (i.e. greyscale) printer. Notably I want:
to ensure that some text ...
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How are the publishers able to print book covers in neon colors?
How are printers and publishers able to print book covers in neon? This House of Night book cover, for example, has the effect of neon color, but when I try to do it with CMYK they don't look vivid.
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How do I match the colors of my print with a reference print?
I have a series of around 100 scans of vintage stamps (all coming from the same scanner), and just a couple of actual stamps within that set, to be used as color reference. What's the best process to ...
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Color shift when image is converted to CMYK
I'm working with a graphic designer to design a book cover for a self-published title of mine on Amazon. The purple in the cover image becomes dull when converted to the required CMYK.
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How do I find multiple variation of same color which are visually contrasting
I am developing some kind of heatmap for a stock market-related project which has ~80 large to small boxes on the screen to denote a stock and it's change
I use a red background on box to denote loss, ...
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How to emulate this aesthetic using Photoshop or Gimp
I would like to replicate the style used in these images. I can tell it's not just good photography, but the images are also edited. What I wanna do is take an image that has a white background, ...
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Inkscape: how to “negate” paper colour?
I have a document prepared with Inkscape that contains bitmap and vector elements:
Photo by Steve Johnson from Pexels.
I want to print it on coloured paper (ivory) with an inkjet printer. Of course, ...
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Change Hex Color of Graphic Image in Photoshop With Transparent Background
My question is very similar to this one:
Changing hex color of a graphic
I just want to change the hex color of the shell graphic from #53767F to #375459:
According to the top answer in that question,...
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Color management from CMYK to RGB in a brand guide > in which Adobe program?
I experience small variations in the RGB values depending on the different programs I used to convert the color values in CMYK to RGB. So my question is if there is a preferred program to use ...
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Too bright HEX color
I've stumbled upon a problem while redesigning a Xd-mockup for a company I work for. They are using the CMYK 56,4,100,0 for alle their offline marketing, which works great for that purpose. But when I ...
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I need to recreate/convert two designs respecting color blindness. Where to start?
I have a design made with RGB for digital platforms and the same design made in CMYK for printing.
Now, I have to recreate both designs respecting Deuteranomaly, Protanomaly and Monochromatic.
Where ...
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Calculate blend mode colors
In my case, I have a background color #333 and a "+" layer with blend mode difference. The blend mode is evidently so that the "+" is always nicely visible for any background color ...
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Convert website images for dark mode
I just converted my website to dark mode so it chooses the user system settings. However, most of my images and videos look horrible (too white). Are there any tools to automatically convert images ...
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Change color to white using GIMP
I'm trying to rotate a color in a photo of a house with quite a bit of shading to white (actually, a slight gray would be better).
For example, in this photo taken from a website:
How would I change ...
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Multitone-duotone conversion to RGB
I'm using photoshop and I want to export some multitone-duotone file (.psb) to rgb jpeg. But I cannot convert it from Multitone to RGB without a radical change in my colors. (see the image below)
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How to change color of product in a picture
I have a picture of Jacket, the color of jacket is black. I want to change the jacket color to white. Here is the picture
How can I change the color of jacket ? Please help.
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Mapping 3D RGB color-space to 1D Visible light wavelength
I wonder how to make a 1-to-1 mapping between the 3D RGB color-space and 1D visible light wavelength (nanometers)? I have shown their images below:
I mean if I want to know what is the RGB color that ...
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Why is my EXR showing up lighter than expected in Photoshop?
I have a 32-bit EXR image that's supposed to show the following color:
r: 0.5
g: 0.5
b: 1.0
each color channel is in the [0, 1] range. When I open the EXR file in Photoshop, this is what I see:
You'...
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