Color And Photoshop
 

Ive noticed that while working in photoshop with color and saving you sometimes get a different color in a saved file than what you used in photoshop ... why tf is this ?

It could be your color settings, Go to edit > color settings, and try different modes.

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yeah , messing with that now. i always just wrote it off and didnt setup a profile / cali monitor etc.

anti: i would be interested in know more about what you find out about illustrator. i usually just write it off as not useful ...

ive been using illustrator cs for a few months now and its a good program to have. if ur doing anything vector, nothing else compares. it takes some getting use to how it works but its worth it in ways. its just knowing what does what and where to go for what desired effect (messing around with stroke sizes and brushes). a great program for drawing, and u can always save a sketch as a .tga and move it over to photoshop. try it my good sir, might like it, might not, but at least youll know.

sketch in illustrator - texture added in ps
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ive found that making files in photoshop are lighter than when you save them

the monitor callibration shit worked. check for it in your control panel.

The short answer is that different video card/monitor combinations show different colors, as it looks like you found out.

At least you aren't trying to deal with exact pantone colors. Stupid customers...

yeah ... i use to digitize for a garment manufacturer and had to deal with that shit.

everything ive done ive used the pantone charts and recorded each color value.

you mean like RGB or CMYK values? i know they represent how much of a primary color is in the color, but if you wanted a paint a certain color, how would they use those values to make the color? what does each point on the RGB value represent, like measurement wise?

RGB/CMYK has no direct correlation with the Pantone system. If you want to use PMS colors in Photoshop, you need to use the custom color picker. The numbers in the RGB/CMYK systems are just proportions of each color.