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All right, for those of you who have one of the many skews of Creative Suite 4,
whether it's Designed 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 happen 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 reason at all.
But anyway, if you manage to get it open successfully, if you are following
along with me in the previous exercise you will see that your color settings
are not synchronized. That's okay because we are going to synchronize
them 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 insure 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 setup 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 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 of
future chapters and you can learn about the wonderful creative stuff inside of Adobe Illustrator
CS4.