Re: Matching PowerPoint Color to Photoshop Color

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From: Steve Rindsberg (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 07/04/04


Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:21:09 EDT

In article <1D231679-08F5-4FF2-80DA-53C5065FB0F1@microsoft.com>, Gizmette wrote:
> When I get the RGB color from the color-picker in Photoshop and adjust the fill RGB
color on an object in PowerPoint, they do not print the same. What's going on? They
look the same on my monitor.

Photoshop has a tendency to color correct your image for you (whether you want it to or
not). So when you dial in, say, 0R 0G 255B it tries to make it look on your monitor like
it will on whatever output device it thinks it's correcting the color for.

PPT does no color correction whatever other than using special addins.

So what they each show on screen will often be different, even given the same RGB values
to display. Unless you can get Photoshop to quit "helping" you.

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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