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:
emtx said: Here's a shot of my color tab, but it is something I have not edited before, so it should just be the defaults.... Color Proof Settings give me slight changes in saturation at most, but don't look like whats printing. In photoshop I let the printer manage the colour.
Here's a shot of my color tab, but it is something I have not edited before, so it should just be the defaults....
Color Proof Settings give me slight changes in saturation at most, but don't look like whats printing.
In photoshop I let the printer manage the colour.
You did notice that you have CD handling color and applying a profile and that's not what you have in PS.
David Milisock said: Here's a shot of my color tab, but it is something I have not edited before, so it should just be the defaults.... Color Proof Settings give me slight changes in saturation at most, but don't look like whats printing. In photoshop I let the printer manage the colour.
Ok try setting to color conversions performed by, setting to the printer and correct colors using color profile to sRGB.
Yes! that was it. (sorry I didn't see your last post for some reason) Came out fine once I changed the Color Conversion to the Printer. Can't understand why I didn't try this myself...
Thanks for your help David.
I am glad you have it sorted. The funny thing is, your image printed perfectly on my 2 printers letting Draw handle the colours.
Well the thing is, I never have had to change this tab before. X3 handled the colours fine. *shrug*