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[Illustrator] - Photoshop colors appear darker in Illustrator
I need help! My T-Shirt designs were created in photoshop but the equipment my manufacturer uses requires files in illustrator for cutting purposes. When he opens my design up in Illustrator we noticed that the designs colors appear darker than in photoshop. I have a trial version of Illustrator and when i opened up the design in my version of illustrator the colors showed up the exact way the are suppose to in photoshop. can someone tell me if there is a setting that my manufacturer has to change so that we are on the same page.
What are your working colour profiles? You can change the colour settings on both programmes to be the same and it should show the same colour.
Are they on different monitors - I presume that they aren't calibrated.
(plus other factors).
Thanks dave for your post well we changed the settings but its not the monitor and i dont think its the setting because when we printed the design on a shirt it came out darker the same way it shows up on my manufacturers illustrator. And Also we changed my settings today to his settings but yesterday when i was comparing the designs colors in photoshop to illustrator it came out fine on my computer there was no difference in colors so it must be something with my manufactures illustrator settings
Monitor not being properly profiled or high end monitors have a contrast ratio of 400 to 800
lower end/ Apple monitors have 2000 contrast which will make things much brighter..
I have had same issue when I get files from a client that uses a Mac?
His Ai files seem darker and bland when I receive but when I am right besides him looks great on his computer?
The monitor is not the issue because my manufacturer can see the difference in the designs color between the two programs on his computer. It shows the proper colors in photoshop but when he opens the file in illustrator the colors are much darker. He has his monitor calibrated.
So it's fine on your Photoshop & Illustrator, fine on his Photoshop but dark on his Illustrator?
It's his Illustrator then.
I'd trash his colour preferences file and start afresh. The file is vulnerable to corruption and can give funny effects - is he Mac/PC/XP/Vista?
Yeah I think we might have to do that but we are working trying to figure out how to get it working right. I have been sending him the file in a adobe Pdf format through Photoshop but I have not tried sending an ESP. He is fairly new with Illustratorso he is still learning somewhat.
If the file was designed in Pshop, and need to be in illustrator, did you try re-doing it in Illustrator. If not what is happening to the file , is it just coming out darker-has the color shifted. If the color is the same but only darker, take your pshop file and duplicate your background layer. take the copied layer and lower your opacity 50%. turn your bottom layer off and save your file with a different name and save as a pdf. also make sure you have the layer on normal and not multiply.
Last edited by romebush1a; January 29th, 2009 at 12:58 PM.
Have you compared not only the color settings, but also the proof setups?
There can be a big difference between using relative and perceptual intent.
If some colors are out of gamut, it can also give big differences using different calibration methods. The better profilings does not necesarily give better colors, if they are out of gamut. Simpler calibrations (only matrix and gamma correction) are usually more forgiving with out of gamut colors.
Photoshop colors appear darker in Illustrator 
