New perpetual education website

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints refreshed their Perpetual Education Fund website. The project was lead by Lead Design Manager John Dilworth.

The new website features selected stories from over 40,000 individuals who have been able to better their lives through education opportunities made available to them through PEF loans. The site also contains information about the program, and instructions for individuals who may apply for loans. The site was launched in 4 languages (English, Spanish, French and Portuguese) and will service areas around the world.”

• wade
• 0 responses
•  Graphic design, Web

Mormon.org refreshed

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints refreshed their mormon.org website last month with a stronger grid, typography, and video.

• wade
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•  Graphic design, Typography, Web

Need Utah-based, Contract Flex Developer

Hey guys, really cool and unique project, and we need a master Flex developer to work onsite for the next 10 days. Priority urgent project, will pay very well.

Please contact me and/or Chris Parkin:

sgustavson@omniture.com
cparkin@omniture.com

• Vuel Egham
• 0 responses
•  Business, Web

Illustrator Color Matching Issues

I have been using Illustrator to create web designs – I much prefer it to Photoshop because of the ability to create precisely sized objects and to position them numerically.  The problem – and I believe this is true in Photoshop as well, is that what you see is NOT what you get.

Herewith the issue. I create a color, using any of the available tools, say, #EE0022.  I apply this color to an element, then do a “save for web”, and save it as a png.  I then insert this element into a web page and when viewing the web page I notice that the color is not what I “saw” in Illustrator – the web version seems a bit less saturated.

So, using a color meter application, I sample the Illustrator image and note that it reads #E50020, even though Illustrator  is telling me the color is actually #EE0022.  I then use the tool on the web image and it reads #EE0022.  So, the color is actually being saved as what Illustrator says it is, but when viewing it in Illustrator it is decidedly different, as confirmed by the color tool.

I have my color profile set to sRGB, the document color mode set to RGB, so that is not the issue.  I thought I understood the whole “color management” thing, and actually have been pretty happy with my print work, but the web color management thing is not making sense to me.  I did a bit of Googling and apparently I am not the only one who has come across this problem – but I was unable to find any sensible answers.  There were lots of “calibrate your monitor suggestions”, which obviously makes no sense since I am viewing EVERYTHING on the same monitor, but nothing really helpful.

It seems clear to me that Illustrator is applying some kind of color profile to the image when viewed within Illustrator, but then saving the actual color values without any profile.  Since the profile I am using is sRGB, i.e. a computer monitor, I can only say “HELP”.  I have already tried turning off color profiles and everything else I can think of, but no luck.  One thing I did notice is that if I create elements in Fireworks, it maintain color fidelity.  But I hate Fireworks and do not really want to learn something new for no good reason.

Has anyone else run into this?  If so, some guidance – or even empathy – would be greatly appreciated!

Roi Agneta

• roi
• 4 responses
•  Web