Hi Everybody, Here's my last shot at correcting the bull about incorrect eyedropper readings. If you rely on eyedropper readings, listen carefully. If not, just forget this post. It's gone far enough. How many objects do you see in the following drawing. I created four. On top is a red rectangle (50% transparency) over a Pantone rectangle. On the bottom is a Pantone rectangle (50% opacity) over a red rectangle. So ? How many rectangles do you see ? You are correct: there are six rectangles. The two overlap areas are objects created by the programmer. Why in the world did he do this. 1. The monitor screen has only has one layer. You can not put those original layers on two separate layers on a one layer screen. 2. The effect of two layers must be faked by mathematics. Like it or not, that's the facts of life. 3. Neither can you blend the colors from separate color spaces. The same channel color values stand for different colors in each color space. Again, like it or not that's the facts of life. 4, Given the facts of life, the programmer must: -- Create a new object for the blended area -- -- Convert (using profiles) the top and bottom color spaces to the same color space. -- Blend using mathematics and insert the channel blended values into the new object. The above may be hard to swallow. Nevertheless, it's better than to listen to a lot bull that the eyedropper readings are FUBAR -- especially if you rely on eyedropper readings. Phil
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