Sort by Color Mode?

Is there a way to sort by color mode rather than by color profile? I have a large collection of images, many untagged, and I'd like to sort out RGB and grayscale from CMYK.

Yes you can, use the find option (cmdF) and in the option choose color mode.
It would be a good idea to make a feature request for this option in the filter panel :-)

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Plugin for a sort of color palette

Hello everybody,
is there a plugin or a feature in Photoshop CS6 I haven't discovered yet that offers me a sort of color palette that looks like the 'Color' feature in the 'Window' menu in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014? The palette offered by the plugin should deliver the colors contained in the currently opened picture.
In Gimp e.g. there's a feature in the colors menu that delivers a gradient of all the colors contained in the image.
Thank you very much.

the only way I know how to do it is:
1. convert your image to indexed color. (Image/Mode/Indexed Color...) .. hit ok if it asks you to flatten all layers, then hit ok again. By default this will break your image down into 256 colors.
2. go to Image/Mode/Color Table... and in the pop-up window, click 'save...' and then just type in a new name for the file it is asking you to save. Do not type an extension after your filename. And remember where you're saving the file. Now you're back to the previous pop-up window (the color table window)- just hit ok to get out of it
3. in your swatches panel, choose 'replace swatches' - if it asks you to save your current swatches, you can do so before proceeding. Then, browse to the folder where you saved the file. At the bottom of the "load" window where it says "Files of Type:" at the bottom, it says "Swatches (*ACO) by default. Click on that, and it drops another menu down, Select "COLOR TABLE (*ACT) instead. Now, the file you saved will show up. Click on that file to load it into your swatches.
4. hit "step back" or undo a few times until you get your image back into RGB mode (or whatever mode you were in before Indexed mode).
And now your swatches panel will contain every color in your image as a swatch, up to 256 colors. This won't work for millions of colors because obviously how could you have a swatch panel with 16 million colors..
this is a painful, long workaround... but it does what I think you're asking for. Maybe you can find a way to automate it via scripting or something

Pros and Cons of working in LAB color mode

I like to use LAB as my color mode. Partially becasue I have a spectrophotmeter and can sample things; partially becasue it is the space which I am most familiar with.
If you pick up almost any ID instruction book, it says "ID has three color modes: RGB, CMYK, and LAB. We aren't going to talk about LAB." I assume that is at least partially due to legacy. However, is there something I am overlooking? Is there a danger to work working in LAB I haven't thought through?
Mostly my work is output to web or print - both desktop and offset - without spot colors.

MarieMeyer wrote:
I seems to me that if I specify colors in LAB and then output to sRGB or Adobe RGB the color is going to be the same - whereas if I had typed in RGB values it will not. (Realizing this is NOT some magic cure for monitors not being calibrated!)
Obviously ID isn't an image editing/generator program, but for brochures and thing I do apply flat areas of colors. If I type in a LAB color that is out of the gamut of the CMYK profile of the working space, I get an OOG warning and can dial it back. What I really like is the speed with which I can adjust the value of the color without changing the hue/chroma by adjusting just the L channel. It is sort of like creating tint swatches, only in reverse!
dylw, I take your point about the number of printers who aren't meticulous. But don't I have the same problem if I'm relying on a swatchbook that provides CMYK values but was printed on a differe paper at a different company than the one that I'm going to use?
When I was a student I used to worry about exact color matching and presume that it could be achieved. Now that I've been out here working in the real world for a few years I understand that perfect color matching, even with good color management, is a myth. Most users don't have calibrated monitors, or even monitors capable of displaying the full gamut of what your eye can see or even what your camera or scanner might be able to capture, and process color gamuts are genereally smaller still. When you go to press you are at the mercy of the press operator, the vagaries of plate making equipment, paper inconsistencies, ink mixing, and even ink brand, not to mention the light sources in use at the press and in your office and where your product is finally viewed by your user, and how those particular inks react to differnt wavelengths.
Even a custom profile is at best a point sample, or an average of many point samples, from a particular run or runs, and is not going to match every sheet that comes off the press. A well-trained eye can probably spot variation in color from one end of a single press run to the other, and even more likely from one run to another. Your spectrophotometer is using a particular wavelength and angle of light to sample your color. Is that the same wavelength and angle that will be used in the client's office under the fluorescents? Has your specrophotmeter aged and drifted?
Color management is about getting good, or even excellent, matching of colors across various output conditions, but there are too many environmental variables to be able to achieve one single "perfect" set of output numbers. All you have to do is grab some output and stand in a doorway and compare what you see in daylight against what you see in room light to demonstrate. The human eye and brain, to varying degrees, recognize certain things as being "normal" colors and will accomodate to tell us, for example, that paper is white, even if it's a bit yellow or gray, until we have a whiter sample for comparison. Further, most of us are incapable of seeing the difference a 1 or 2% density shift on press would produce (and that's pretty close to the tolerance you could hope to achieve in the pressroom), let alone the fractions of percents that we often specify when converting colors.
Lab is a theoretical color space that has no "real world" equivalent, but is extremely useful for translating colors from one real world condition to another. Even if you choose to work "in" Lab, you are at best translating your sampled colors under their specific sampling conditions (which don't match your general lighting) to your monitor space (which may or may not be accurate) and then asking to translate to yet one more output space that probably will not match the real world conditions under which the finished work will be viewed.
What you are doing by specifying the color in Lab is trying to eliminate the source profile, but I doubt you'll get any better output.

I try to insert some images on a website but the images are not in the right color mode. I do not know what to do? and also I have 1200 images to insert so I can not change one after one. So I need to set up an action, but I donot know how to do it... Tha

I try to insert some images on a website but the images are not in the right color mode. I do not know what to do? and also I have 1200 images to insert so I can not change one after one. So I need to set up an action, but I donot know how to do it... Thanks

What is the problem specifiaclly?
If the images are intended for web use I would recommend converting them to sRGB which could be done with Edit > Convert to Profile or with File > Save for Web, but as including a Save step in Actions and applying them as Batch can sometimes cause problems I would go with regular converting.
You could also try Image Processor Pro.
Scripts Page

Converting from pantone to cmyk color mode in Indesign CS3??

I am working on a business card for a customer, I am using Adobe Indesign CS3.
I use an outside company for the printing job called 4over (4over.com) and they require you use their cmyk pdf print engine so they can do the job properly... Basically to break it down: I am in Indesign CS3, I choose Print, and as the printer I choose their "4over pdf cmyk print engine" so the colors do not convert and the color doesnt change when they use their printers.
4over is telling me my document is in pantone color mode, they can see the pantone color 371C, but not the cmyk values.
How do I change from pantone color mode to cmyk color mode???
if anyone can help me please. I would really appreciate it.
I attached the file I sent to 4over incase that helps anyone answer my question.
Thank you,
Brandon

Before exporting, in the swatch panel, select your Pantone colour, right click and select swatch options. Change the color type to Process and the color mode to CMYK.
If it's a business card and you showed the client a pantone swatch, know that you won't get the same colour results. There's a very useful Pantone book available that shows swatches side by side with CMYK values.
http://www.pantone.com/pages/products/product.aspx?pid=283&ca=1&s=4

ITunes puts my computer in windows 7 basic color mode. It also does not recognize my iPad as viable video source

When I start iTunes on my desktop computer, instantly it switches to Windows 7 Basic Color mode:
"The color scheme has been changed
The following program has performed an action that requires Windows to temporarily change the color scheme to Windows 7 Basic.
Program: iTunes
Publisher: Apple Inc.
Process indentifier (PID): 3296
Windows will automatically change the color scheme back to Windows Aero when this program or other programs performing similar actions are no longer running."
When I close iTunes, it immediately switches back.
THEN, when I try and move a movie I have recently downloaded ("Tangled (2010)" or "Tron: Legacy") to my iPad (1st edition) or iPod Touch, iTunes tells me these devices are not supported:
"Tangled (2010) was not copied to the iPad "My iPad" because it cannot be played on this iPad."
I get the same message with "Tron". This is only happening with the movies I have downloaded after February. All previously downloaded movies work just fine. I have found when I transfer the new files to my laptop and use iTunes on there, everything works normally.
New for today...
When I plug the iPod Touch into the the desktop computer, iTunes locks up completely. I only get it back when I unplug the iPod.
Solutions...
I have done minimal talking via email with iTunes support. They told me to make sure I had the updated version of everything. I had explained in my original inquiry I had done that already. When I replied as such, I did not get a reply. I sent several messages explaining that I have deleted itunes all together from my computer and reinstalled the program from scratch. Finally, I received a second reply to reinstall iTunes.
Also, I have tried several ways of moving the movies over to the iPad and iPod: dragging/dropping, sync, auto sync. I get the same error message every time.
I am more than a little frustrated with Apple's lack of support and hope someone out there knows something that can be done. PLEASE HELP!
My desktop computer:
Homebuilt with EVGA 58x motherboard
Processor: Intel i7 920 @ 2.67GHZ
RAM: 12 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate w/Service Pack 1
nVidia GeForce GTX 275 1GB GDDR3
DirectX 11.0
My laptop:
HP Pavilion dv6700
Processor: Intel Core Duo T8100 @ 2.10GHZ
RAM: 3 GB
System Type: 32-bit Operating System
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
nVidia GeForce 8400M GS
Thanks in advance,
Scott

Just curious, have you resolved your issue yet?
I am working on a friend's computer that had the same issue and it turned out that her iTunes was set by some crappy program called TuneUp Companion to use Windos XP compatibility.
If you have TuneUp Companion, uninstall it.
Then check to see if iTunes is trying to run in some prior windows version compatibility and turn it off
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1489

My illustrator CS6 crashes when i try to open an AI file with RGB color mode

My illustrator CS6 crashes when i try to open an AI file with RGB color mode. I worked on this file yesterday and changed it to RGB mode. Today i tried to open the file again but illustrator won't open it and crashes. It does work when i want to open a file with CMYK color mode.
Anyone know how to fix this ?

Have you tried trashing the prefs?

Can't see color mode in .ai files

Is Bridge not supposed to show detailed information about illustrator files?
I'm trying to view the color mode of ai files, but I can't get them to show.
I would think that it being a long-standing Adobe app that Bridge would allow it.
Any ideas?

You'll need to provide some better specifics.
I brought it in from final cut 6 as a quicktime output.
Did you use the Send To Color command from within Final Cut?
I'm going to suspect that your problems are a result of using a Mac Mini. Color requires the use of a graphics card, not an integrated graphics chipset (like those found in Mac Minis and MacBooks).
Quote from the Final Cut Studio Requirements page:
An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)

Why does my Bridge read RGB or B&W for the Color Mode on a file, when in Illustrator I have set it to CMYK?

I'm kind of stumped and this has been a question of mine for some time. I did some further digging on it, and did find that what it's reading is the Photoshop Color Mode XMP data, which is odd since the files were never in Photoshop, and were created in Illustrator. Is there a way to remove this info? How do I fix it?

Probably can be chalked up to one of Illustrators mysterious color issues.
Therefor it might be best to drop this question in the AI forum itself. I know to less of AI but just tried a bit with a new document, you can't convert to a new color profile like used to in PS, only select CMYK or RGB and assign a profile but that is not the same as converting.
Also in color settings it says by default to preserve numbers in stead of the profile itself.
And yes, mysteries are common at Adobe, although being one company one doubts often if they are even aware of the existence of Bridge and even other applications in the suites. Not even all file types of Adobe seem to be fully supported in Bridge…

I am new to scripting & I need Script for Document color mode

Hi,
Please help me to create a script which should find the Document color mode. I am new to scripting. And please let me know how to use the same.
Balaji

Are you using the Extendscript Toolkit Editor (ESTK)? In the Help menu you can find all the properties for Document that can be queried/changed.
(Personally, I don't use ESTK, because I really really hate it. But I don't want to miss the Help, so I made my own version. I have Illustrator CS4, and it's possible your version doesn't have this, but under Document I find:
documentColorSpace
DocumentColorSpace:
DocumentColorSpace.RGB
DocumentColorSpace.CMYK
readonly
The color space used for the document.
For the how-to-use I glady refer you to Adobe's own Starting With Scripting guides.)

Color mode for exporting to EPS to be printed as CMYK or spot

I have a couple illustrations I need to export to use in a Quark file. Some of my Quark pages will be printed in CMYK, and others in spot colors. How do I create and/or export the illustrations for both color modes?
Thanks.
~Valerie

I'm still on Illustrator 12. On my copy it's called Process Color.
I have no idea why there's a button to convert to a process colour and another to convert to CMYK, since they're the same thing and both buttons produce the same result. Maybe they're rying both out while the program's still in Beta. Illustrator has been in Beta for about eight years.

How to keep color when switching from RGB to Indexed Color Mode?

I'm working in Photoshop CS6
In Photoshop I've designed a custom crop screen for use in Magic Lantern (a program that runs with Canon cameras) The project is in 8bit RGB and to be able to use it (in Magic Lantern) I have to change it to Indexed Color (using a an .act file provided fom them) Then I have to save it as a .bmp. When I chnage from RGB to Indexed color (loading the .act file) the color in my Photoshop project turns to grey.
I haven't worked with Indexed colors or changing the color mode etc.
My question is... how can I keep the color (or a color similar, compatible color) to what I created in RGB when I convert it to Indexed Color using the .act file?
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Attached are 4 jpgs:
- The Crop Screen as it appears in the PSD file (RGB color/8-bit)
- The Index Color .act file that I'm loading
- The settings after I have loaded the act file
- the Crop Screen with the blue color missing

Convert document color mode to Pantone/Spot

I have a document in which i have 2 layers, each layer contains shapes. one layer is supposed to be Pantone 293, the other layer is Pantone 296. right now, the colors are in RGB. I saved as is, then saved as PDF and the printer whom im sending this to, said the PDF printed out in 4 plates (CMYK) and i need only 2 plates, hence, i need the document to be in a spot color mode. How can i do this? How do i convert the colors i used in the shapes now to spot colors in CS3 version?

First I recommend changing the document to CMYK mode.
Here is the traditional fix: Window: Swatch Libraries: Color Books: Then select a Pantone Solid library. Show the Find field and type in your numbers. Double click the color chip to add it to your Swatch panel.
In the Swatch panel: Add Used Colors. To replace the global colors you are using currently, click on the Pantone swatch first, then the current swatch and select "Merge Swatches."
If you have lots of different shades of colors, you will have to create tints of the two spot colors.
Check your results using Window: Separations Preview to make certain you don't have CMYK being used. If your document is RGB, you will not be able to utilize Separations Preview (that's why I suggested the mode change)
You can also use Edit: Edit Colors: Recolor Artwork to make global color changes. But this is a somewhat complex dialog and takes getting used to. I recommend familiarizing yourself with this tool before using it in live production.

How to control Color Mode and Resolution for brochure creation?

Hello guys,
I am trying to find some settings within Pages, where I could set CMYK color mode and 300 dpi resolution for my pdf file.
I am creating brochure from scratch, using blank document, because non of brochure templates work for what I need. But I can't find any controls for color mode and resolution set up.
Is there any solution for this?

There has been a lot of discussion in the Pages forum about resolution and some on CMYK.
Much of the discussion has been incorrect.
For the colour handling there is the colour palette
The Apple Colour Palette is the user interface for colour managing vector objects created in Apple Pages such as rules and panels and for colour managing one class of vector objects not created in Apple Pages, namely typographic objects.
Imported objects maintain their colourant model and colour space, if there is one. If there is none, a colour space is assigned and the assigned colour space is saved out into the PDF, opposite e.g. Adobe Photoshop which will colour manage the object in the open editing session, but will then save out the object to disk without the assigned ICC profile if 'Colour Management: Off' is configured.
Therefore, if the imported object is data space CMYK and the colour space device CMYK, the system will assign the Generic CMYK Profile which is equivalent to ANSI CGATS TR001 colourimetry (US SWOP); if the imported object is data space RGB and the colour space is device RGB, the system will assign the Generic RGB Profile which is equivalent to sRGB colourimetry in OS X 10.5 and higher.
In general, always capture and then convert for correction in one of two data spaces with three channels, either ICC colour managed RGB or ICC CIELa*b D50. Then convert to CMYK1, CMYK2, CMYK3, CMYKn from the ICC colour space chosen for correction and archiving. This colour space should be large enough to hold any colours that the output colour spaces can hold.
The Apple ColorSync Utility has a gamut comparison dialogue which is 3D (point, press, and turn the 3D gamut comparison). Use this facility to pick an ICC colour space of reasonable size and shape for correction and conversion into final output. Don't pick sRGB as a quick look will show that it can't hold as input what ISO reference offset can hold as output for pure cyan, let alone hold what a big inkjet can hold in greens, blues, reds and yellows.
The ICC architecture lets the ICC profile for the printed output match out of gamut colours to in gamut colours using the Perceptual rendering intent, as intended in the original architecture from 1995. Adobe internally introduced an inhouse conversion for compatibility with PostScript and as default for PDF, Relative Colorimetric with Adobe Black Point Compension. Relative Colorimetric is in fact a proofing transform, without gamut mapping. Black Point Compensation is a simple linear scaling of the lightness to compensate for the fact that the shadows will be clipped in a Relative Colorimetric conversion.
The other problem is transparency, introduced in the QuickDraw Graphics Extension for Mac OS 7.5. Transparency is not supported in any version of Adobe PostScript (level 1, level 2 or level 3). Transparency is also not supported in any version of Adobe PDF prior to version 1.4 and higher. Therefore, unless the RIP Raster Image Processor is able to accept PDF 1.4 and higher, transparency has to be rendered / flattened which is done in the PDF/X-3 filter of the Apple ColorSync Utility.
The idea in the PDF/X-3 filter (for Adobe PDF 1.3) is that the everyday enduser, after placing ICC colour managed RGB or CIE La*b D50 objects, and after choosing an ICC colour space for objects created in Pages, chooses the ICC colour space for the output condition. The filter accepts both ICC profiles of type MNTR Monitor with data space RGB, ICC profiles of type PRTR Printer with data space RGB, and ICC profiles of type PRTR Printer with data sapce CMYK.
The colourant conversion (RGB to CMYK) and the gamut mapping (out of gamut colours in input colour spaces mapped to in gamut colours in output colour space) is then calculated as per the ICC profile for the output condition. An output condition is the combination of factors that affect how colour is formed: the colour lightness and colour tint of the paper, the colours of the colourants, and the tone value increase. Think of gamut mapping in a good ICC profile as Format 1 kerning in a TrueType font (where your font has state-based kerning for up to 8 glyphs simultaneously).
Below a link to a discussion of how to change the default PDF/X-3 filter the Apple ColorSync Utility. "Wegen diverser Fehler im Mac OS X empfiehlt es sich, wo immer möglich, die PDFs ohne Transparenzreduktion (also auf normalem Weg) über den Befehl Als PDF sichern zu erstellen und das Flattening der Druckerei zu überlassen," that is, pick the plain save as PDF path and leave the transparency flattening to the prepress technician.
Henrik
Reference:
http://www.icalamus.net/tutorials/howtocreatepdfx.php

Convert to RGB Color Mode (Windows XP/CS4)

It appears I have to change an image from indexed color mode to RGB mode. Can someone please tell me how to do that? Thanks!

Image > Mode > …
But if a photograph is "Indexed Color" it is likely not very good quality and you might want to try getting the proper source material.

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