[The Dude]

I'm updating a web-site for a local magazine.

They send me CMYK Mac Tif files.

I use a PC.

When I view them with ACDsee they look like this:


When I load them with photoshop they look like this:


I have not done any monitor calibration and I have color management disabled.

I've tried playing with modes, levels, etc. to match the color, but that is a pain and takes too long.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get a more true color from photoshop?

Is there something I need to be doing differently?

thanks.

[dude]
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[ May 31, 2001: Message edited by: The Dude ]

[jzero]

YES, you need to be doing something differently. Your Photoshop is not seeing all the color in the original images, and that's bad. Don't try playing with Levels and Curves, 'cause you'll just be throwing information away.

Looks as thought you need to start using Color Management and calibrate your monitor. It's a little confusing at times, but the essential thing is that you need to know where your images are coming from and where they're going. It looks to me like your Photoshop setup is not seeing all the data from the image, probably from using the baseline sRGB color gamut, which is very narrow. If you change your RGB Setup prefs to use a wider gamut setting, you'll see a better image coming into Photoshop.

Your best recourse is to learn to use Color Management, by reading the Photoshop manual, and looking this up on the web or in magazines. This topic confuses a lot of people (including myself), so there's going to be articles written about it. Check the Adobe website to start, they're sure to have something on this. The base issue is to pick a color profile to work from, so that you are getting all the colors you can from your source images.

[ May 31, 2001: Message edited by: jzero ]

[The Dude]

Well the image is a CMYK image and loaded into photoshop as CMYK is playing with the RGB settings going to effect it at all?

I tried all the default Color Management settings and then messed around customizing some of those settings with no success.

I was also told that calibrating your monitor is only useful for output to print and that I should not do it when publishing for the web.

I will look into color management and post what I find here.

If anyone else has thoughts on this, I'd appreciate hearing (reading) them.

[dude]