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Old 10-13-2007, 02:49 AM
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My designer sees different colors on his screen

I have a display, calibrated with the Eye One Display 2.

I sent a files to my designer to make a postcard.

Now he says he likes the bluish tone.

But on my screen it is more into green, and warmer.

What do you think is happening here? I thought monitor calibration makes colors recognizable on different monitors - and look the same.

  


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Old 10-13-2007, 11:47 AM
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Re: My designer sees different colors on his screen

Perhaps the colorspace of your file is different from the one your designer is using to display it.

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Old 10-14-2007, 01:45 AM
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Re: My designer sees different colors on his screen

He's professional. He wouldn't choose the wrong color space.

Do you actually have to tell someone which color space a file is in? Doesn't Photoshop automatically recognize it?

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Re: My designer sees different colors on his screen

Calibration is for individual monitors, to get the best out of them in a specific setting.

Profiling is needed to ensure a photo will look as close as possble over a number of [calibrated] monitors.

Did you contemplate that your designer does not have a calibrated monitor? Or that its calibration is months old, his CRT [if one] too old? It could even be that you have set a different WB [i.e. a little warmer] than him [he will most likely have set to 6500 K but ask him].

Eventually it can simply be that you and him use different monitors; if hey are not calibrated side by side they will most likely look differnt.

A softproof is not the same as a hardproof, only the latter - on the correct material with the exact printing machine settings for the final print - will show the colours as they will be printed.
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Re: My designer sees different colors on his screen

It's also possible he's calling it "bluish" while you're calling it "greenish" and you are actually seeing the same image.

How about posting the image, or a small part of it, here. We can tell you whether we see bluish or greenish.

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Re: My designer sees different colors on his screen

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Do you actually have to tell someone which color space a file is in? Doesn't Photoshop automatically recognize it?
Photoshop will strip out the colorspace info in some save modes. Even if the colorspace info is present Photoshop can be configured to ignore it. You might want to discuss this with your designer.

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Re: My designer sees different colors on his screen

Don't get me started on graphic designers and digital photos. I had one guy I worked with all the time at a good sized design house who was always getting colours off. I asked him when the last time he profiled his monitor, and he didn't even know what I was talking about. I went over and did a profile on his monitor, and that fixed things a lot.

Possible problems are that either you or him have an incorrectly profiled monitor, he might have converted the image to CMYK, and that's caused a colour shift, the colour spaces are different, maybe he's got a big bank of flourescent lighting in his office that's screwing up what the monitor looks like. The list is endless. My advice would be to go his office and look at the image on his monitor, and go from there.

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