Grey Scale

[jackamus]

In my document settings I have set the colour to Grey scale 16 but the white is not white but a pale grey. Why?

Also what colour profile should I use with this grey scale?

If I now want to introduce colour into the document how do I do it whilst maintaining a grey scale without a colour cast?

 

 

 

 

[Callum]

Hi Jackamus,

1.  I would have to see the original document to tell you why this is the case.
2. A Generic Grey profile should work fine
3. There is no way to introduce colour while maintaining grey scale.

Thanks

C

[jackamus]

File attached.

The square shape should be White with this document's colour set to Greyscale16.

If you change it to RGB16 the square becomes white and there is a colour cast.

Grey:colour.afdesign

[Callum]

Hi Jackamus,

 

If you go to the colour tab and change the burger menu to sliders and then change the dropdown to LAB you should notice the L slider is at 95 changing it to 100 should solve this issue.

 

Do you have a copy of the file before you converted it to greyscale? 

 

Thanks

C

[jackamus]

I took your advice and changed the colour and colour profiles.

Does it matter if I use RGB/8 or RGB/16?

[Alfred]

16 minutes ago, jackamus said:

Does it matter if I use RGB/8 or RGB/16?

 

Having started with Greyscale/16, you’ll discard information if you use RGB/8 instead of RGB/16.