Quark - Colour of Jpeg Changes

BobbyFowler

I'm putting this jpeg picture into a Quark document. The logo is purple in colour. When I put it into Quark it becomes blue?? I've manually used Adobe CS2 to change it to purple but still it appears blue when I put it into Quark. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

heggie

image wont display, says it contains errors, aside from that, if its 1 colour make it a monotone and apply a swatch colour to it, and it should stay the same, are you printing it out or is it just onscreen that it looks different? have you chosen full resolution preview?

BobbyFowler

Thanks for the tip Heggie. Tried printing it and it wasn't as blue as it looked on screen, but it wasn't purple. Went into the image and changed it from CMYK to RGB and that's done the job.

Hank_Scorpio

Quark only uses a low res preview when inserting images to save on memory. Remember that quark only shows a representation of what your document will look like. The images are only placeholders, so whatever colour it is in your external package when you print it is the colour it will print in quark.

In saying that you better off using tiffs than jpegs, everytime you resave a jpeg it continually degrades the image. If you want a single colour image even it's a photograph make it b/w in photoshop and apply the colour you want in Quark. It's a far more efficient and more accurate way to change the colour of pic/logo etc...

sdssarah

quark works much better with tiff images, have you tried that?