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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Photoshop color exact?Question: Photoshop color exact!? I am re-creating a business card in InDesign and I have to use black and pantone 109 U - yellow - for it!. They have a logo of a sun and the top half would be said yellow and the bottom would be black!. I am trying to change the color in photoshop b4 I bring it into InDesign but I cannot find an exact match for that pantone yellow!. I found the swatch in photoshop but the 109 U there is significantly different that the 109 U in InDesign!.!.!.!. how can I get an exact match!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Take a screenshot, save it, send it to yourself via email, and then open up the email in InDesign (as long as you have Internet connection; seems most classes do) and then use the eyedropper tool to get the exact color!. Or you could do it the easier way if you like numbers better!. Go into your color picker and copy down the color coordinates (on mine they're on the right side of the window) and see if that's it!. Otherwise it might just be your screen resolution!. On one monitor the color looks different than on another monitor!. I've had that trouble before a few times on my games!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I used to have the same worries when Photoshop colors did not look right in the predesessor for InDesign, called Pagemaker!. What I learned was not to worry about how the colors appeared in different applications or on different monitor!. The only color that REALLY mattered was the one in the final print!. In your case, as long as you specify to your print service bureau that you want PMS 109-U, then that is the yellow that they will mix for your print job!. What you have to be sure of is that you REALLY want Pantone 109-U, and not just what Photoshop tells you is PMS 109-U!. You don't know if the Photoshop version is correct, or the InDesign one is!. It may be neither!. If you don't have a Pantone swatch book, check out the one the print shop may have, or consult with someone else's, to make sure that is the yellow you want!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Photoshop is raster based and InDesign is vector based so that might be a reason why you are seeing color differences!. Between Illustrator and ID they should look the same!. You do need to realize that monitor color and actual color are different so you should have hard copy color chips to look at!. If you are getting these printed then just have the printer do a proof for you before starting the run!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The color (109 U) in Photoshop is probably the same color that you see in InDesign!. The difference that you are seeing on the screen is most likely by the difference of the color space you are working in inside PS or InDesign!. I assume the color space in InDesign is set to CMYK, and the default space for PS is RGB!. Change that to CMYK and see if the color is still different!. Good luck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com cant you use the duplicate tool where you click on the color and it shows up as the same one!? i believe i have seen this when working in photoshop before!. maybe i dont understand your question fullyWww@QuestionHome@Com Pantone Colors are solid colors--when you define Pantone 109 U, there is a formula for how to mix that one color, a lot like house paint!. No matter how it looks on the screen, it will always look the same in print!. Even if you did the whole thing in Pantone 425 U and told the printer you wanted 109 U instead, it would print fine!. Do not worry about what it looks like on the screen when you are using Pantone colors!. What is important is that you keep that color defined as the same name in each program so that when you print separations you will have two pages: one with black and one with Pantone 109 U!. EDIT: Wait!.!.!.Are you just using Pantone 109U in Photoshop or are you creating a separate spot channel for it!? If you are doing a two color job in Photoshop, you can't just change the color or it will break it up into CMYK plates!. You need to go to Channels and then select New Spot Channel from the drop down menu!. You may be seeing a difference in InDesign because Photoshop is showing a CMYK document and not your spot colors!. When you are making a two color document in Photoshop: Go to Window-->Channels From the pallet drop down menu choose New Spot Channel Click on the color and navigate to your Pantone choice Make sure everything for this color goes on this channelWww@QuestionHome@Com |