I've recently made the change from X3 to X5. In X3 I had all the colours printing out fine but now the colour management window has changed. I just printed something blue and it came out teal. I exported it to a cmyk jpeg and printed from photoshop and it comes out fine, just as it looks on screen.
What do I change to fix this?
Hi emtx,
Rather than going into explanations on a topic which fills a book, all I can really say is open Photoshop, click on Edit>Color Settings and then open CorelDraw (and later, Photo-Paint) and go into Tools>Color Management>Default Settings - and make sure all the settings are the same. The only issue you may come across is if you are using the Adobe colour engine in Photoshop, which is not available 'by default' in CDGS. You can simply change it to Microsoft ICM and have the same setting in CorelDraw, or leave those settings alone...you most likely won't be able to see any difference anyway between those 2 colour engines. If you believe you can see a difference then download the Adobe CMM from Adobe and install it into CorelDraw.
Best regards,Brian.
This is NOT directly aimed at emtx:
I have a feeling a lot of users either don't set up colour management in Photoshop at all or they don't go back and look at its settings when trying to match settings in CDGS X5. I say this for a reason. In X5 colour management has been revamped and brought completely up-to-date. The colour management dialog in X5 contains almost identical options to the Adobe colour management dialog, so how can anyone ask why the colours differ? If you set the 2 programs up the same.....use the same colour profiles, the same rendering intents, the same colour engines..you get the same colours. If you set them up differently then you get different colours. Because the 2 dialogs are so similar now it should be glaringly obvious where one has been set differently to the other. Here is an example of Photo-Paint and Photoshop being set up with the same colour management settings. These may not be the correct settings for your needs, but are merely an example:
Hi Pratik,
thanks for your post. I am using most of the settings in that dialog posted, but i use Windows WCS as my colour engine. I did used to use the Microsoft ICM colour engine and to be honest with you it worked fine for me. Please note that I work with photographs (I am really a Photo-Paint user) and do very little in Draw other than page layout and very basic designs from time to time to make the page look prettier. I print to my own printers, so no commercial printing involved. I switched from Microsoft ICM to Microsoft WCS last year when David Milisock recommended I do so.
I showed Microsoft ICM in my screen captures because I wanted to show the Corel and Adobe colour management settings as close as possible. I don't have the Adobe CMM in CorelDraw, so I use Microsoft WCS in CorelDraw/Photo-Paint and leave the default Adobe colour engine in Photoshop. I don't see any difference in colours between the two, either on-screen or in print.
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the reply.
I tried what you suggested and made sure the colour settings are the same with both programs. I printed another test print and the difference in colour is still the same. It's quite a big difference too... there must be something I'm missing here.
To give you an idea - CorelDraw shows the colour on screen like the first box but prints out the colour like the second box. After exporting, Photoshop shows the colour on screen as the first box and prints the colour like the first box: