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:
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.
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.
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.
emtx said:Can't understand why I didn't try this myself...
My color management book at www.graphictechnology.com handles most work lflow issues
Is this colour conversion default setting changed from X3 to X5? Because my colours always used to be fine printing from X3 and I've never had to change that tab...
emtx said:Is this colour conversion default setting changed from X3 to X5?
X5 has had a complete rewrite of the color engine. X4 and older had so many serious issue with how the application handeled color that X5 was scheduled for the repair.
For example X4 andolder could not send RGB vectors to th eprint stream, could not save RGB vectos as EPS, the list goes on for even.