Colours too light

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Alan_King
Jun 10, 2005
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I’m not, by any means, a proficient user of PS, but on the other not a novice.

I am using PS 7.0, the problem I have is with the colour of the image on screen when using PS, it is far far too light on screen, it prints out close to what I want, but if I get the colours on screen as I want the printed image is then far too dark. But if I import the version which is too light in PS into InDesign the same graphic them appears perfect on screen and prints out exactly as it should. This to me indicates the problem is not with the setting of the monitor, as it would be as light in Indesign as it is in PS when imported.

Can someone tell me what settings to adjust in PS to alter the onscreen image so as to make the image darker on screen and so make the printed and onscreen images the same, as they are in InDesign.

Thanks in advance
Alan

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LenHewitt
Jun 10, 2005
You need to calibrate your monitor by running Adobe Gamma from the Control Panel and then set up your colour management from Edit>Colour Settings.

Having don that you can SAVE your colour settings to a colour settings file (.CSF) to the default location and from InDesign’s Edit Colour Settings you can LOAD that .CSF you just saved.

You can then be sure both applications are using the same colour management settings.

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