Now that you have the settings matched…ya still have a huge problem with Photoshop making incorrect ASSUMPTIONS about the color space of the EPS.
For example, if the EPS CMYK does not equal Photoshop’s Working CMYK, the color is hosed when rasterized unless we Assign the correct color space (I would think)…
Still, the "bug" reference sounds more like a learning/workflow issue? If it is a bug, how would you recommend fixing it?
How should it be working?
Not sure I understand your point. I was rasterizing to RGB not CMYK. Why should the CMYK setting matter to a file opening as RGB? That seems buggy to me.
Ha, Ha, okay, ya got me on that 🙂
Why should the CMYK setting matter to a file opening as RGB?
Not sure, but wouldn’t PS need to convert the images from the source (CMYK) space to the destination (RGB) space and wouldn’t assuming the wrong profile hose the colours?
Were there Spot-to-Process colors in the original vector file?
And was that file (Illustrator?) a CMYK one?
Rene and Ann, I don’t know where the source files came from. I received them from my client as generic EPS’s and don’t know the source application or color space. Nothing about the file itself indicated either. I don’t work alot with this type of file so I was baffled. If the files originated as cmyk that would make sense that my cmyk setup affected it when rasterizing. You can be dang sure I’ll ask in the future. I didn’t get paid for that one. Rightfully so.
Open the eps file in a text editor. It should show what app created the file and what color space it uses.
Thanks much. I opened the file in a text editor and found they were created in Freehand using a number of Pantone colors. I saw nothing that indicated a particular color space, but the Pantone colors I assume are CMYK. How, then, would you know which CMYK color space to chose in Color Settings to assure the correct result in the rasterized file? I didn’t know the color was off until my client pointed it out. Seems like there is a lot of opportunity to get it wrong and not even know it.
I would be inclined to open and re-save these files in Illustrator because it uses LUTs to translate Pantone colors to the screen and might produce the closest match to the algorithm which your Freehand files originally used.
Then Open the Illustrator file in Photoshop and use "Assign Profile" (with Preview checked) to see which profile best suits the file followed by "Convert to Profile" choosing your chosen working color space.