Color problem

[Jack Archer]

Hi,

I was working in Photoshop and accidentally hit some key combination and now I have a color problem. When I sample a color with the dropper, then try to apply it to another area, the color is lighter than what was sampled. The color in the toolbox area is right, but when I apply it it's lighter. I also should mention that I'm working with a layer mask. Anyone know what I did?

Thanks,

JA

[Phosphor]

Make sure your Layer and Fill Opacity is set to 100%, Layer Blending "Normal."

Likewise, make sure that whichever tools you try using to apply the color are set to 100%, and blending mode to "Normal."

You probably hit a key combo that changed one of these.

Please see the Quick Reference card or PDF for more info.

[Stevan]

I have a old verision of Fireworks 2. I have a stock picture of a TAB for a navagation bar i want to use .

I want to color teh tab only not the background. Could someone help me on this.

Thxs STEVE
Newbie

[Martin]

Hallo All,

I'm parsing colorvalues (Hex) from Flash to Director. I director I use them
to color a 3d model. But the colors aren't the same
What could be the trouble? I've tried all kinds of conversion but nothing
helps. Do I need to convert ?

The colors are numbers like : 773193728 or 2497554 actually they are not RGB
or Hexadecimal but just decimal numbers

Hope somone can help me... it's driving me crazy

Grtx en Thx,
Martin





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Martin Baars
Grafische vormgeving - Multimedia

[ashakya]

When i import CMYK photos from photoshop in freehand its color is totally
changed , how can i correct that in freehand ?
i will be greatful for any kind of help and suggestions. i am very new to
freehand, pls help me.

[Judy Arndt]

You'll want to set up your color management for working with CMYK colors.
There's a section on Color Management in the Help files.

Judy Arndt

ashakya wrote:

> When i import CMYK photos from photoshop in freehand its color is totally
> changed , how can i correct that in freehand ?
> i will be greatful for any kind of help and suggestions. i am very new to
> freehand, pls help me.
>
>

[ashakya]

i went through help files but the same problem is there. would you pls explain
the procedure to setting up the color management in freehand?
i am facing some problem due to the discolor of cmyk images while designing so
pls help me . one of my friend said that even the color display is different in
freehand , the print out of the images from press will be exact same color as
in photoshop , is that true?

anil

[Wes Rand]

We've found that bitmaps placed in Freehand will reproduce as set in Photoshop.
Color management is tricky and not very precise. What kind of computer are you
working on and what version of Freehand and operating system?

[Judy Arndt]

ashakya wrote:

> i went through help files but the same problem is there. would you pls explain
> the procedure to setting up the color management in freehand? i am facing some
> problem due to the discolor of cmyk images while designing so pls help me .

What! You want me to explain in two simple sentences what Macromedia can't
explain clearly in sixteen pages?!! ;-D

Very sorry, I can't possibly tell you how to set up color management for
your machine and your intended output. Color management settings will vary
with your monitor, your operating system and the printer you will be
printing to.

Maybe Ian Kelleigh's tips will help:

[url]http://www.freehandsource.com/_frames/_tips/_archive/tip_week006.html[/url]

> one of my friend said that even the color display is different in freehand ,
> the print out of the images from press will be exact same color as in
> photoshop , is that true?

Umm .. not precisely true. As long as you're printing to the same CMYK
printer, using the same printer settings, the same image will print with the
same colors, whether printed from Photoshop or from Freehand.

Judy Arndt
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FHMX 11.0.2 (Build 92)
Mac G4, OS 10.3.3

[ashakya]

hello wes,
my operating system is window xp in pentium III and freehand version is 10.

thanks
anil

[ashakya]

hello Judy

thanks judy for your nice comments, i appreciate that. i couldnot get exact
color management in freehand so i decided to put color management option to
none, will that creat any problems or impact in final print ?

thanks
anil

[ChrisD2]

Just to confuse matters and put a downer on things, in the past I've found that
Freehand running on a PC will print differently to Photoshop, on same printer
and same settings. Moreover PC Freehand will print CMYK Tiffs differently to
Mac Freehand. I used to work in a large-ish design studio that ran both Mac and
PC, and our IT guys never did find a totally reliable solution.

I don't have any definite answers, but to get by I've found it best to avoid
CMYK images in PC Freehand altogether if you possibly can. If you stick to RGB
you'll get much more consistent results without putting the time in to tweak
your settings for hours on end. You may well get CMYK to work well on screen
and in print on a PC but it'll be a case of methodical trial and error.

If anyone has more thourough or useful information on this then I'd love to
know too, it's given me a lot of headaches over the years!