Is your workflow color managed at any point? Is your display profiled? Is your printer profiled? If not, that is a good first step. If so, please post more detail about your problem. Which tools are used, media, profiles etc.
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Neil brings up an important point in that luminance or display brightness varies between devices. The display type will also affect the devices ability to match one to another. The important point about display brightness is that Color Gamut is directly affected by display brightness. If all other variables are the same a device at high brightness will appear more colorful.
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Your workflow looks good until you mention what you have to to different to print.
Color managed workflows, work properly when each step of the workflow is calibrated and profiled. When that happens the embedded profile does a good job of describing how you want the image to look. Not perfectly but very well for most in gamut colors. With the possible exception of blues.
so make sure your monitor and printer are profiled and that should help your workflow.
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Well Given the Holiday season has begun, I suspect this is the perfect present that any good Beaver family might give at Christmas time.
Wrapping the good presents while the pups are asleep!
Certainly a cool Yule!
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Well Since Dean and I were vibing on the same frquencies for my last post I thought I'd give it another go. I did keep the bench this time 😉 Amnesty for the Empire
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Set and save your color settings in Photoshop. Then Open Bridge and load them. Then hit Syncronize and all of your Adobe CS apps will now have the same settings. These should hold for you.
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If you profile on a similar media, the images should be close but you may want to increase the printer density a bit to compensate if this work will be back lit. If not Whit ink is what's needed.
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Yes! You must plan this from the start and do not include the transparent rendering and drop shadows. Create the text in 3D as you did but color it a solid color. Render that with a transparent background as you have in this example and use it as a selection mask to isolate your transparent text.
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The correct way to do this is to use Lab values. Thoose are universal and hooow color spaces for RGB,CMYK and Hex are derived. As DFosse suggests the RGB and CMYK color spaces are specificto a gamut or print process. CIELab values are device independent and the only way to geep the same caolor across devices. Specificaly 16 bit CIELab though if your colrs contain vignettes or gradients.
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The CMYK values this site generated were never useful because they were not based on any known print standards. So we are very glad Adobe removed them. Use the Lab values and you can make the correct RGB and CMYK values in Photoshop or Illustrator or indesign or wherever you make your art.
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