Colour Specs Don't Match between Adobe products

[._Bartay@adobeforums.com]

InDesign CS2 / Photoshop CS2 / Power Mac G5

I spec my tiff colour as a specific colour (eg: 15/100/95/5) in Photoshop. I have a block of colour in InDesign spec'd as 15/100/95/5. I place the tiff on top of that block of colour. When I print (either a compoisite CMYK or Seperations) the two pieces DO NOT desolve into one. You can see the placed image's edges in the composite or all 4 plates.

Any ideas why Photoshop and InDesign don't speak the same language?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Bartay

[Bob Levine]

> Any ideas why Photoshop and InDesign don't speak the same language?

They do...if you tell them to. You've got to set color management up
identically in both apps.

Bob

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

If you want to make sure, that 15/100/95/5 is printed as 15/100/95/5 no matter what you should save the tiff without embedding a profile.

Bobs suggestion to setup your cmyk in PH and ID identically is the better way to go if you can.

[rob_day@adobeforums.com]

As Bob and Gerald suggest an embedded profile that doesn't match the ID doc's profile is the most likely culprit. If you select the TIFF and go to Object>Image Color Settings and set the profile to Use Document Default there will be no color conversion for that file and you should get a match.

However, even with matched color management you could get mismatched colors depending on how you make the color in ID. Photoshop's CMYK readouts are rounded to whole numbers—the PS color might actually be something like 15.29|100|95.15|5.39 depending how it was made. So to get a perfect match in ID you should pick up the TIFF color with ID's eyedropper tool to make the swatch.

Also, if you are using IDCS2 don't use the color picker in the tool palette to build the color—that picker creates CMYK values from RGB or Lab color and your build won't hold. Instead use either the Color or Swatches palette to build specific CMYK colors.

Rob

[._Bartay@adobeforums.com]

Thanks to all three of you.

I will try tweaking the colour settings and hopefully that will help. I did turn off the colour (by suggestion here in the forum) because a simple 5 word sentence in Illiustrator was causing my eps files to be 1.8 MGb in size.

Thanks again to all three for the suggestions..
Bartay

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Forget EPS place native Illustrator files.

[rob_day@adobeforums.com]

Open Separations Preview palette, turn on Separations and run your cursor over the TIFF and ID color. Do the readouts change? If they do what are the two versions of the mix?

Rob