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Color profile in PPT

Anonymous
2020-04-21T09:56:34+00:00

Hello,

What color profile should be used (ICC) on Illustrator et Photoshop so that the illustrations and photos colors would look exactly the same on Powerpoint ?

For now i'm using sRGB IEC61966-2.1

Thanks a lot for your answer,

Karin

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Anonymous
2020-04-21T16:59:30+00:00

Hi John,

Thanks for your answer.

I finally made tests with a set of colors in ppt,

Then pasted it in an illustrator document saved in .ai or .eps in with different profile - imported again in ppt.

In Adobe Illustrator, when saving your file in .eps, verify you don't have "postscript CMJN in RGB file" activated in the the options.

That was the problem.

So with sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile or without it is good for files saved .ai and .eps

also good with adobeRGB but only with .eps file

Regards,

Karin

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  1. John Korchok 232.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-04-21T16:13:08+00:00

    PowerPoint for Mac is only color managed in Edit mode. In Slideshow mode, it is not, so your colors will change. I have no idea why they decided to do that, if anything it should be the other way around.

    Adobe software allows you to choose to have color managed by the application, or by the operating system. PowerPoint only uses OS-based color management. For the latter, color profiles are chosen by device, not by software program. So you'll get the most consistent result by turning off the application color management and just using the OS color management for your display and printer. But that sill doesn't fix the slide show appearance in PowerPoint.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-21T15:19:09+00:00

    Hello Jim,

    Thanks for your answer.

    No no, no, we are talking RGB here :-)

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  3. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-04-21T14:07:14+00:00

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  4. Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP 436K Reputation points
    2020-04-21T13:50:10+00:00

    IMHO, what you're using is as good as any but I hope you realize that your stated objective amounts to chasing a ghost :-) Every color device - computer, phone, display, printer, etc. - has its own color space which affects how color is displayed. There is no way to guarantee how color values will be interpolated on a different system.

    If you go to > System Preferences> Display - Color you can determine the profile being used on that system. Again, that doesn't mean that colors will render "exactly the same" if the image is displayed on other systems.

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