Saving and Loading Color Settings


One of the things that drives my students crazy is when a color in Adobe InDesign looks different when displayed in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. How can the exact same color look totally different? That has to do with different color settings applied in each program. Fortunately, it is rather easy to synchronize all your Adobe application color settings so the color looks the same.

To save the color settings:

1.

Set your color settings as described in the previous section.

2.

Click the Save button in the Color Settings dialog box.

3.

Name the color settings file (.csf) and save it in the following location :

Use the Save Color Settings dialog box to save your own color settings file.

Disk: Documents and Settings: [User]: Application Data: Adobe: Color: Settings (Win).

Disk: Users: [User]: Application Support: Adobe: Color: Settings (Mac).

Tip

This saves the setting in a location where the other Adobe applications can use the settings file.

Once you have saved the color settings, you can open or load them into InDesign or another Adobe application.

To open the color settings:

1.

Click Load in the Color Settings dialog box.

2.

Navigate to the Color: Settings folder as described in the previous exercise.

3.

Choose the color settings file.

Tip

If you have chosen the same color settings for all your Adobe applications, a message appears at the top of the Color Settings dialog box stating that your settings are synchronized .

A message in the Color Settings dialog box lets you know if all your Adobe applications are using the same color settings.

If your copy of InDesign is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, you have an additional feature that allows you to easily synchronize all the applications in the suite.

To synchronize color settings using Adobe Bridge:

1.

Open Adobe Bridge.

2.

Choose Edit > Create Suite Color Settings. This opens the Suite Color Settings dialog box.

or

Click the Color Management button in the Adobe Bridge Center . This opens the Suite Color Settings dialog box.

The Adobe Bridge Center allows you to synchronize color management settings across all the Adobe Creative Suite applications.

3.

Choose the color setting from the list and then click Apply. This synchronizes the color management across the Adobe Creative Suite applications .

Use the Suite Color Settings dialog box to choose the color settings file you want to apply to all the applications.

Tip

If you have chosen the same color settings for all your Adobe applications, a message appears at the top of both the Suite Color Settings and the Color Settings dialog boxes stating that your settings are synchronized.



InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows(c) Visual QuickStart Guide
InDesign CS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
ISBN: 0321573579
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 309
Authors: Sandee Cohen

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