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.
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:
First please send a CDR file not a CMX file.
Also please post screen captures of your application color management, document color management and color proof docker. Also the PS color management settings and print dialogs.
It appears that you may have modified the default color management setting of CorelDRAW
Hey Dave,
Alright, here you go...
8831.Desktop.zip
emtx said: Alright, here you go...
I need the captures from your Photoshop print dialogs please.
Now one question, if memory serves your exported from CorelDRAW as an image file and then printed from Photoshop correct?
Yes, the jpeg in the first zip is the exported file from coreldraw that I used for comparison.
Heres the photoshop print dialog:
Since you have the printer managing the color in Photoshop we'll need the captures from the printer driver, best if we have them from PS and CorelDRAW.
Here's the only colour related window from the print driver. They are identical between programs.