Duplicating a color from a imported file

[SameDay Signs]

I've got an EPS file a customer sent me and when I go to print it the things prints absolutely great. The red in it is much better then my red so I'm wondering if there is a way to somehow save the red in imported file and that way I can use it on my color chart?

 

[Z SIGNS]

I've done this in corel. Click on the color than add it to your palette

 

[Terremoto]

I've got an EPS file a customer sent me and when I go to print it the things prints absolutely great. The red in it is much better then my red so I'm wondering if there is a way to somehow save the red in imported file and that way I can use it on my color chart?

By any chance are you doing all your design and layout in CMYK? Are the colours (that's the way we spell it up here) in the EPS file RGB? Just curious.

Dan

 

[SameDay Signs]

By any chance are you doing all your design and layout in CMYK? Are the colours (that's the way we spell it up here) in the EPS file RGB? Just curious.

Dan

Yes we do everything CMYK....I always thought I could just click the color and add it or something but I guess not...

 

[SightLine]

Select just the red section with the white pointer or ungroup / unmask it and get to it. With the color mixer window open, when you select it then drag the red box on the color mixer window down to your default color palette. Unless it's a flattened raster image, then just use a color picker to figure out it's values. As mentioned by terro, I bet it's RGB.... you do know that you will get a LOT wider range of color using RGB right? Make a block of red, set it to RGB red, then in the color mixer change it to CMYK and marvel at how dull and ugly it gets. Flexi does particularly well with RGB and particularly well with file that have an Adobe RBG profile, go figure since Flexi uses Adobes native PS RIP engine... We only use CMYK if we have to for some odd reason. Custom color palettes are also a handy tool.