Chris26 Posted December 29, 2020 Posted December 29, 2020 Switching from Photography to Design work has thrown up an issue I never had to deal with before. I suddenly noticed that using the HSL colour space consistently in an s'RGB document threw the colours off in my home printing. I am not surprised at all. My question is this: Should one convert all HSL values to RGB values when choosing colours in your design, (this is for home printing). I have read that not every tone and saturation can be accurately represented in the RGB conversion. (according to the wikpedia article I read this is the impression I got). The odd thing was that when I did a proof test in the adjustments panel it did not show any deviation anywhere. I would be grateful for some insight please. William Overington 1 Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door.
Chris26 Posted December 29, 2020 Author Posted December 29, 2020 26 minutes ago, BofG said: Hmm, there's no such thing as a HSL working colour space. If your document is sRGB then that is your colour space, the HSL values in the colour picker are just calculated from there as representations of said sRGB. You are already setting the colours in RGB, regardless of whether those sliders show HSL or RGB. When you say the colours are off in printing, what are you comparing them to? Ok well thankyou for that Bof. I actually thought that at first, until I started reading some things, thankyou for clearing this - as for the colour mis-match I will have to re-evaluate what I did, it should not be a problem sorting that out now that I know it was not the use of the HSL colours I chose. Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door.
William Overington Posted December 29, 2020 Posted December 29, 2020 I am no expert in this, but I wonder if the issue might be that if your printer is a CMYK printer that when it gets the sRGB information it is beyond its capability to print some colours. For example, do bright colours like red and green seem to be softened into milder versions of red and green? Just wondering, I hope this may help. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England.
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