AI and SWF colours again

[rhamelers]

Hi all,


Yesterday I asked a question about the colour changes that occur when

dragging an Illustrator image to Flash.

Nick Austin replied "From my understanding - ILL 6.0 only works in CMYK and

not RGB. This will cause the colour translations to be different". This

gave me an idea. I once changed the colour matching preferences in

Illustrator to work together with Photoshop (so that Illustrator colours

look the same in Photoshop).

Although this not actually what I wanted to do with Flash (since it works

the wrong way round - I want Flash images to look like Illustrator images

not vice versa) it is still a nice tip. I think some of you will appreciate

it.


The tip is: you can start drawing your CMYK images in Illustrator making

them look like RGB images (thanks for the brainwave Nick).

In Illustrator go to: File:Preferences:Color Matching...

Double-click the colours in the Color Matching window. Set the RGB values

for the colours as follows:

   Cyan: 0/100/100

   Magenta: 100/0/100

   Yellow: 100/100/0

   Red: 100/0/0

   Green: 0/100/0

   Blue: 0/0/100

   White: 100/100/100

   Black: 0/0/0

   Black CMY: 0/0/0


Remember: this is also handy for those who like to start designing their

sites in Illustrator and then import objects into Photoshop. No colour

changes will occur.


Martin McLaren: thanks for the tip (exporting to jpeg).

This works too. Unfortunately resizing is not possible (unless you'd like

your images blurred ;-) ).

You'll have to make sure you start off with your images big enough.

Though Martin's tip is the only one so far that makes it possible to keep

the original colours from Illustrator to Flash.


Any other ideas/comments are welcome, Flashers ;-)


Roger Hamelers