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Exporting EPS/AI to Photoshop mangles colours.

Last post 06-09-2008 15:06 by faditech. 3 replies.
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  • 05-15-2008 13:47

    Exporting EPS/AI to Photoshop mangles colours.

    I am trying to bring a vector file from X3 into Photoshop CS3 using its Place/smart object features, and somewhere along the line the colours in the vector file are getting really washed out. I don't care how they look so much as they come into Photoshop with the same numbers that they left CorelDraw with. The only way I'm able to do that seems to be exporting it as a bitmap, and I'd like to go with a vector format if possible.

    I have tried a bunch of different settings in the Draw colour management dialog, exporting PDF, AI and EPS formats, and turning off colour management in Photoshop, none of which seemed to make a difference. Does this sound like a CorelDraw problem or a Photoshop problem? It should be pretty easy to export and import a vector file without touching the colour values but I'm just not having any luck here.

    Does using postscript convert my RGB colours to CMYK? That's the only thing I can think of.

  • 05-15-2008 18:13 In reply to

    Re: Exporting EPS/AI to Photoshop mangles colours.

    Bob,

    If you print to Postscript, it will be CMYK. If you use Publish to PDF from
    CorelDRAW, you have the option to save as RGB.
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  • 05-20-2008 8:04 In reply to

    Re: Exporting EPS/AI to Photoshop mangles colours.

    Late reply, but that worked, thanks. I didn't get into the settings when I tried PDF before so I missed the RGB option.

  • 06-09-2008 15:06 In reply to

    Re: Exporting EPS/AI to Photoshop mangles colours.

     Its fixed in corel X4

    but EPS is still a problem in Corel (I feel its an adobe-Mac affiliated thing)

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