I do designs in photoshop and it looks great on my PC but when i send it to my mac computer, the blacks look washed out and faded. I dont understand this at all and i’ve tried everything i can think of like selecting the blacks and putting up the levels, going into selective color and and pushing up the blacks, and even selecting the highest point on the color scale and filling with black using the paint bucket tool.
Can any photo shoppers out there help me?
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I am not a pro and this is only an educated guess. I think your issue is one program is using RGB while the other is using CMYK color coding. Make sure both programs are set to use the same code and the black should look the same. Good luck.
Photoshop used to come with a calibration tool that adjust your profile to the machine you are working on. Worked great with CRT monitors in a production environment with various computers.
With flatscreen monitors you have several problems. Microsoft has optimized fonts for flatscreen performance. The tack taken this way is an office cubicle viewpoint but does allow optimum legibility with various small fonts and colors.
So, bear that in mind, CRT-monitors approximate production art more faithfully, if the art is final to be delivered to other systems, and the distinct hardware-systems are profiled to a standard.
But from your question it sounds like PowerPoint presentations is the final.
How old is the Mac monitor? That could be the problem, dad’s monitor has a huge light streak down the center because it’s older.
-Billy