Color problem?
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- boobs
Shouldn't the color #2b425c look exactly the same in Illustrator as it does in Flash? Why do they look so different?
I did the layout for a site in Illy, using 32b425c as the background. But when I set that color as the background in Flash, it looks way different.
- monospaced0
Synchronize your color settings (Bridge) for a web workflow.
- I've done that! I'm a professional.boobs
- yes, a name like boobs= professionalism********
- sorrymonospaced
- What makes more money that boobs?CyBrain
- SlashPeckham0
good question - what different methods are people using to reliably convert pantone to hex?
- essentially it's impossible to domonospaced
- pantone bridgeinkpink
- oh yeah, every single Adobe App does it as well, but none of it is reliablemonospaced
- dbloc0
we have this problem all the time....we just work around it unfortunately.
- dbloc0
best way I've found if you want the exact color (or close to it) is in flash take a sample from the illustrator file with the eyedropper
- boobs0
I have the color synced in The Bridge. And I still get this:
Foreground is Illy, background is Flash. Both colors are set to 2b425c, and they look noticeably different.
- monospaced0
Check the assigned color profiles. You might also be working in CMYK in Illustrator instead of RGB.
- monospaced0
Andy Ross? http://andyrossdesign.com/
Is that the real boobs?
- version30
the way i feel about this and other color problems we as designers suffer is.. So what.
the print designers have it hardest. I'll suggest for them what we did. That was match one monitor against one printer for proofing against a pantone chart then went about our day. Matching web values to print pieces is so hard it's impossible over the general population.
our audience buys the cheapest biggest monitors they can find and we work with a range from overpriced to underpowered monitors that can be set to any number of defaults and countless user settings. I keep one monitor of mine as dark as possible with the contrast up for coding without too much eye strain over time, how do you think the web looks on that?
Until you realize that people acclimate themselves to their environments accordingly and color itself is a very subjective matter, just do your best to make sure your hex, jpg, and png values match within your own projects first.
- some truth to this. The end users arent going to break out swatch books.baseline_shift
- inkpink0
what color setting in bridge?
use sRGB and not Adobe RGB
- ********0
the photoshop vs illustrator color is what really drives me nuts
- boobs0
I know I have no control over the end user and how shitty things will look there. Some viewer is going to be looking at this with a broken monitor, and it's going to look purple, and there's nothing I can do about that.
But I would think on my equipment, on one monitor. using two programs made by the same fucking company, I could get two colors set exactly the same to fucking match! Two colors set to exactly the same hexadecimal setting!!
This is fucked up, and I demand justice!!
- inkpink0
oh wait your just saying it looks diff in AI... so the hex value isn't actually changing? must be your profiles.
- exactly what I was trying to say
could be a preview settingmonospaced
- exactly what I was trying to say
- dbloc0
nobody will notice...Just go with it.
- vaxorcist0
CMYK in Illustrator and RGB in flash?
