Color question

Running Photoshop CS3 intel mac leopard. I made a .psd file with spot PMS 307 chosen from the PMS picker, not as a separate channel. I made another file at home on a imac running 10.4.11 CS2 with PMS 307 chosen the same way. Both are RGB files, both have color management off. The colors did not match. Anyone know why?
Thanks

stephanie,
>This was an RGB question that has been blow all out of proportion and I thank you for pointing that out. The CMYK only comes in because of the pantone picker, used to match a logo color.
Please understand that the folks here are trying to understand what you are seeing and what you are trying to do. In your posts #3, #5 and #26, you clearly refer to commercial printing and unmanaged color.
CMYK and Pantone are not Web color associations. And RGB, CMYK, and Pantone spot colors all have different color spaces/gamuts. You cannot get an exact color equivalents across the board in these color spaces. And there are gamut differences between sRGB, Adobe RGB and all the other RGB spaces you can access in Photoshop.
So I'm confused as to what it is exactly that you want to do with the images, in other words, how they are going to be used and seen when all is done.
We can't be sure you have your monitors properly calibrated (the most important first step to color management). And you seem to be assigning your (unique) monitor profiles to your work. I can't say for sure that I follow your workflow.
So, let me ask a few questions:
1. Are your monitors hardware calibrated to 6500°K with a 2.2 gamma?
2. How are the images in question going to be used? Commercial offset, desktop printer, Website, etc.?
3. What color space are you assigning or embedding or... with your images? Is it sRGB?
4. Which Pantone color are you using (and is it for coated, uncoated, or matte paper)? And if you are going for Web, why are you working with Pantone colors instead of RGB or hexadecimal?
5. Have you read G Ballard's excellent color management basics? Do you have any questions?
6. Can you post a link to a screen shot of your color setup if you are preparing art for print?
7. Can you post a link to a screenshot of the mismatched images and describe how you arrived at the colors?
You can go to the free http://.www.pixentral.com to upload the images in question, and copy the link (per pixentral's instructions) back here.
Thank you.
Neil

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