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All right, for those of you who have one of the many skews of Creative Suite 4,
whether it's Design Premium or Master Collection, what have you, then you can
synchronize your color settings inside the Bridge but I caution you this only
works if you have one of the Creative Suites. If you don't, you only bought
Illustrator by itself, you have the Bridge but what I'm about to show you is non-functioning.
All right, so you have to have a full version of the Creative Suite. If you do,
go to the Bridge. It doesn't matter what folder you have the Bridge trained on.
I happened to be looking at that 00 Settings folder but that doesn't matter.
Go up to the Edit menu and choose Creative Suite Color Settings. You have got a
keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+ K or Command+Shift+K on the Mac.
If that command is not available to you or choosing the command gives you a
warning then that's an indication that you don't have the full Creative Suite
installed on the computer and if you own it, you need to run a reinstall or
something. The way Adobe works is they turn this command off unless you have
the entire Creative Suite. I can't stress that enough apparently because
I'm stressing it like crazy, but we have so much confusion around this and
it's such a poor decision on Adobe's part. I don't understand the reasoning at all but
anyway. If you manage to get it open successfully, so if you are following
along with me from the previous exercise, you will see that your color settings
are not synchronized. That's okay because we are going to synchronize
it now. You should see in this list Best Workflow
CS4. If you don't see it turn on this checkbox right there Show Expanded List of
Color Settings Files and then you should see it, assuming that you have
Best Workflow CS4 installed in a proper folder as I told you a couple of exercises
ago now. Go ahead and click on it and notice these
are the settings that Deke recommends. That's me in Photoshop, Illustrator
and InDesign CS4 One-on-One series for Deke Press, O'Reilly Media and
lynda.com. A gang of publishers involved in this pursuit here. They ensure
consistent color and printing across all three applications and more, by the way.
Other applications as well. So here they are, they are good to go. Go
ahead and select and then click on Apply in order to apply those color settings.
Now that you have done that, if you go back to the Edit menu and once again
choose the Creative Suite Color Settings command, then you will see that your
settings are synchronized and all is happy and that means that your color
settings are synchronized across all of the Creative Suite applications. Is that not
hunky-dory? That's so great. Go ahead and cancel at this point because
you have already done the work. Then I'm going to switch over to Illustrator
for just a moment and just to make sure that Illustrator set up the way I want
it to be, I'm going to go back to the Edit Menu and I'm going to choose the
Color Settings command. That's Ctrl+Shift+K here on the PC, Command+
Shift+K on the Mac so that same keyboard shortcut and that brings up the Color Settings
dialog box. You will see all is synchronized but you'll also see that CMYK
has reset to Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles). I want you to change
that to Preserve Embedded Profiles, which is the better way to work. It's not
essential but it's a better way of working inside of Illustrator in my opinion.
Things will become unsynchronized for the simple reason that Photoshop does not
offer anything like this option right here. So there is no analogous option
inside of Photoshop. So you are just slightly unsynchronized, don't worry about it.
You don't need to worry about your settings there, just click OK. And with that,
I set you free to pursue future exercises inside our future chapters and
you can learn about the wonderful Creative stuff inside of Adobe Illustrator CS4.