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lisartist
11-11-2006, 07:26 PM
I created a series of angel designs using Painter IX, Photoshop and CorelDraw (mainly for text and layout). In most of my commericial art projects, colors come out fine in the finished product when I stick to CMYK. Actually Tim Jessell's palette he gave out through in-depth arts a while back. But, there is a company in Canada that is trying to produce prototypes of ceramic mugs, magnets and tiles for the gift shows. They use some subliminal dye process to make samples. I am thinking maybe along the lines of what Cafe Press does. (just guessing) Anyhow, ALL the samples came back with mostly hideous colors. All my flesh tone faces of the angels (similar to PMS 144) came out lavendar or pink and some almost purple.

Like the girl who ate the blueberry in the Willy Wonka film! The Christmas colors were garish greens and fushias instead of red.

All this is to say, we are going to try again.

This is what the person doing the samples wrote me today:



>I believe the colors are being changed because the color profile you are using is not compatible with any of my programs. I generally use Paintshop or Adobe Elements. I have never worked with an artist before and so have never really had to worry about color profiles. I believe that I use an RGB profile in Paintshop. I know that the rip server that we use to send the job to the printer is based on an embedded RGB color profile so I am assuming that that is what I need.



Now.... I have never sent a job in to be printed in RGB before, in fact, I teach my computer art class that RGB is for the computer screen only. I am afraid I don't understand what a rip server is and wonder if anyone out there has had work printed in Paintshop? I don't have that program, but am thinking since Painter and Paintshop are both Corel, maybe I can use a formula that Paintshop will recognize.

How do I embed a color profile?



Thanks to anyone who can steer me straight!



Lisa
www.peruchini.com (http://www.peruchini.com/)
Pinoy McGee
11-13-2006, 07:05 PM
Are you using a customized text color? What you typed is hard to read when in default colors mode (white on dark gray).

Except for your link, your post is black text on dark gray right now.
lisartist
11-13-2006, 08:46 PM
I am sorry my post came up hard to read. It was my first post and I don't know what I did wrong. Hopefully this one will come up right. I will re-post my original question white on black if you think I should.
Sorry about that!

Lisa
Improv
11-13-2006, 11:45 PM
I created a series of angel designs using Painter IX, Photoshop and CorelDraw (mainly for text and layout). In most of my commericial art projects, colors come out fine in the finished product when I stick to CMYK. Actually Tim Jessell's palette he gave out through in-depth arts a while back. But, there is a company in Canada that is trying to produce prototypes of ceramic mugs, magnets and tiles for the gift shows. They use some subliminal dye process to make samples. I am thinking maybe along the lines of what Cafe Press does. (just guessing) Anyhow, ALL the samples came back with mostly hideous colors. All my flesh tone faces of the angels (similar to PMS 144) came out lavendar or pink and some almost purple.

Like the girl who ate the blueberry in the Willy Wonka film! The Christmas colors were garish greens and fushias instead of red.

All this is to say, we are going to try again.

This is what the person doing the samples wrote me today:

>I believe the colors are being changed because the color profile you are using is not compatible with any of my programs. I generally use Paintshop or Adobe Elements. I have never worked with an artist before and so have never really had to worry about color profiles. I believe that I use an RGB profile in Paintshop. I know that the rip server that we use to send the job to the printer is based on an embedded RGB color profile so I am assuming that that is what I need.



Now.... I have never sent a job in to be printed in RGB before, in fact, I teach my computer art class that RGB is for the computer screen only. I am afraid I don't understand what a rip server is and wonder if anyone out there has had work printed in Paintshop? I don't have that program, but am thinking since Painter and Paintshop are both Corel, maybe I can use a formula that Paintshop will recognize.

How do I embed a color profile?

Thanks to anyone who can steer me straight!

Hi Lisa,

I'm no Painter expert, but I think what you need is a way to match on screen colour with output colour.

Have a look in the 'Canvas' menu, then click on 'Color Management' at the bottom of the menu. A dialog box then opens. In the bottom left corner you see a drop down menu called 'Style'. Open that and choose 'Optimized for desktop printing' or 'Optimized for professional output'.

Also to get a better idea of what this is about, read up on Colour management in the help.

Hope that helped some.
Improv
11-14-2006, 12:07 AM
I am sorry my post came up hard to read. It was my first post and I don't know what I did wrong. Hopefully this one will come up right. I will re-post my original question white on black if you think I should.
Sorry about that!

Lisa

You accidently changed the text colour when you were composing the message. There is a little drop down menu where the 'A' is (top centre) , and you probably just clicked on it by accident and changed the default white to black text. No big deal! :-)
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