Mac color's on screen not accurate.

In Freehand when creating art.

[automotivetouchup]

I love my mac, I bought it for design but the colors look great overall but the colors I make in Freehand are not accurate at all. A very light pale lime green turns out to be a very dark green once printed or turned into a gif or jpeg, all the colors come out wrong and I have no idea why.

[travelin cat]

Have you ever gone through the process of calibrating your monitor?
Are you outputting directly from Freehand?

There are so many things that could be causing this...

[lZakl]

travelin cat is most correct. Calibration of your monitor is probable your first step. Getting a printer that you can calibrate would be another advantage.

Color adjustment in just one program though? Sounds like you might need to take a look at the knowledge base...

[macromedia.com...]

-- Zak

[automotivetouchup]

That link did the trick!
Thanks, I am so excited now. The default setting was not the default mentioned in the macrodedia link. I just switched to the kodak colors and it was fixed in the first try.

Thanks Webmasterworld and lZakl!