Posted in Indesign, Illustrator, & Photoshop forums
A poster on Tek-Tips, Mac OS, asked why the PMS colors in Photoshop did not match the PMS colors in Illustrator or InDesign for OSX.
Since this interested me, I did the following – all with CS versions of the programs purchased as Creative Suite Pro.
I created an Illustrator document, drew a box, and filled it with Pantone Solid Coated 1795C, a fairly bright red.
I create a new 600 dpi CMYK Photoshop document, drew a rectangle, and filled the rectangle with Pantone Solid Coated 1795C – same as the Ill document.
I pasted both the Ill and PS items into a blank InDesign doc. The colors were not even close. The Pantone 1795C from Photoshop much darker than the Ill Pantone 1795C.
I then drew a box directly in the Indesign document and filled it with Pantone Solid Coated 1795C. That was a dead match to the Ill 1795C and WAY off form the Photoshop 1795C.
I opened Apple’s Digital Color meter and ran it over the various P1795C objects. The Ill and ID elements registered, Red at 89%, Green at 0, and Blue at 19.6%. The Photoshop element registered 80.8% red, 0% Green, and 23.9% Blue – a large difference from the ID and Ill P1795Cs.
I ran Digital Color Meter over the originals in each of the 3 CS apps and got the same result.
It appears that the Pantone colors in Photoshop are different than the other 2 CS apps. Since I generally use PS for photographic work and Ill for scratch creation of objects, I had never noticed this.
As a Workaround, I created a one color box in Ill and pasted it into an empty layer in PS in order to import the same red as Ill and ID.
Does anybody know of anything that I might have missed?
A poster on Tek-Tips, Mac OS, asked why the PMS colors in Photoshop did not match the PMS colors in Illustrator or InDesign for OSX.
Since this interested me, I did the following – all with CS versions of the programs purchased as Creative Suite Pro.
I created an Illustrator document, drew a box, and filled it with Pantone Solid Coated 1795C, a fairly bright red.
I create a new 600 dpi CMYK Photoshop document, drew a rectangle, and filled the rectangle with Pantone Solid Coated 1795C – same as the Ill document.
I pasted both the Ill and PS items into a blank InDesign doc. The colors were not even close. The Pantone 1795C from Photoshop much darker than the Ill Pantone 1795C.
I then drew a box directly in the Indesign document and filled it with Pantone Solid Coated 1795C. That was a dead match to the Ill 1795C and WAY off form the Photoshop 1795C.
I opened Apple’s Digital Color meter and ran it over the various P1795C objects. The Ill and ID elements registered, Red at 89%, Green at 0, and Blue at 19.6%. The Photoshop element registered 80.8% red, 0% Green, and 23.9% Blue – a large difference from the ID and Ill P1795Cs.
I ran Digital Color Meter over the originals in each of the 3 CS apps and got the same result.
It appears that the Pantone colors in Photoshop are different than the other 2 CS apps. Since I generally use PS for photographic work and Ill for scratch creation of objects, I had never noticed this.
As a Workaround, I created a one color box in Ill and pasted it into an empty layer in PS in order to import the same red as Ill and ID.
Does anybody know of anything that I might have missed?