Image Mode (*)

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Alan_Gold
May 27, 2004
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What does an asterisk mean in the description of a file’s image mode, for example, [photo1.tif @50% gray*)]?

If I convert the picture to another mode and then back to grayscale, the asterisk goes away.

I’m asking because I had several grayscale images on a 4-color page and one of them printed out with a colored tint . . .

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Harron_K._Appleman
May 27, 2004
Alan,

* indicates you are working with an assigned profile (e.g., one defined by the embedded profile) that is different from the color space you’ve chosen in color settings.

# indicates you are working on an image file with no assigned profile.

If neither character appears after your mode in the title bar, then the image has an assigned profile that is the same as your chosen working space.

When you converted your image to another mode then back to grayscale, your working space profile got assigned to the image, which is why the asterisk went away.

=-= Harron =-=
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Peter_Figen
May 27, 2004
The asterisk means that this particular document is in a different RGB, CMYK or Grayscale space than what you have specified in your Color Settings preferences. This would have no bearing on your Grayscale problem. Are you sure that they were just grayscale, or were they printed as a four color gray? Even if you are printing a straight grayscale, if it’s surrounded by large areas of highly saturated color, some of that color can affect areas in line on press and give a tint to the grayscale. If that’s the case, your printer should be able to help come up with a printing method that will minimize that.
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Alan_Gold
May 27, 2004
Thanks, Harron, that makes sense.

Peter, there were seven supposedly grayscale images on the page and a 1/2 page blue panel (mostly cyan). 6 of the pix came out right, and one of them came out like a 4C gray, almost like a slight sepia tint in the final printed page. Very puzzling.

AG

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