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colors in freehand

Hi,
trying to make a bookcover and started to wonder about the colors...

I have made a picture in Photoshop and there is a certain brown I want in the text. The text I'm going to do in Freehand.

I used the color sample tool to take up the colorvalues of the brown and fed them in the color mixer in Freehand. And it looks really different from the brown in Photoshop.
I have heard that it doesn't matter. But is it an absolut fact, that the brown in the text will be same as in the picture when it goes to the print??

Confused!
a-m

:: yeah.....it should print perfectly when sent to the printer. What version of Freehand are you using?

Make sure you download all the update for Freehand as well.
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:: thinKer ::

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:: thinKer ::

Hi
And thank you for your bold answer,
...as you were the only one! :-D

I use Freehand 9.

are you working in CMYK color space?

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Yes, the "problem" occurs when I have changed the picture to CMYK.
And the reason why i'm worried is that my home printer prints the CMYK colors totally warped (as on screen in Freehand)
(And I can't export the complete freehand document to TIFF so that the colors would look right.) Are there some settings in my printer window I couls change to make this right?

you have to know one thing... never go by what the screen tells you. Match your color to a pantone value, thats the only way you'll have any assurance of what its gonna look like in print. Whatever your brown is in your photoshop, either on screen or out your inkjet, I can guarantee that its not the same brown thats gonna come off the press, so don't even worry about color differences on screen.

If you're working with a spot color, meaning the press will deliver a coat of this exact color and not mix it with CMYK, find your best pantone match by using a PRINTED pantone color matching guide. Spot color is reccomended if this and black are gonna be your only colors. If your gonna mix the colors with CMYK, find a printed CMYK color guide which is using the same exact inks your print shop is gonna use.

Also, if you're making something for print, allways remember, RGB means absolutely nothing. There's no real use trying to match any color to an RGB color because RGB is light, not pigment. Inkjet proofs from an RGB image are also useless. If you like the brown your inkjet spits out with your proof, match the brown in your proof to the colors in a color matching guide. Thats the best way to get it shy of investing in color calibration software.

Also, TIFF is a raster format and is for photographs. You want to work with a vector format like EPS, PDF, or PostScript.

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