[eye4clr]

Thanks for the kind words.

You can bring either into Illustrator. But there are nuance differneces with the avenue you bring the image in with. The best bet is have the Illustrator file match the raster color space for simplicity.

sRGB gets a lot of abuse. Newby color geeks often evangalize AdobeRGB as being "better". The key question is - what is the image as it comes to you? Does it come to you as sRGB or something else? This is what you need to know. Go to your color settings in all your adobe apps and check on all those color policy boxes and have it set to Preserve Embedded Profiles or somethign to that effect. This way the apps will flag you and make you aware of what you are opening. When you get confronted with a dialog asking you how you want to handle a Profile Mismatch - choose to Convert to Your Working Space for safety and simplicty.

Flexi by default is AdobeRGB and US Web Coated SWOP. This doesn't match the defaults of the Adobe apps - they are all sRGB and US Web Coated SWOP on a fresh install. Ya gotta get em all to agree. When in doubt, just set them all to AdobeRGB and US Web Coated SWOP.

Flexi is kind of a pain on this. It only lets you setup 1 workflow for input profiles. Wasatch does the same. So, if you want to accomodate different RGB spaces on the input, you've got to constantly be changing the setting - not fun. Onyx allows Quicksets that control the color management amoung lots of other things. You can have as many as you're willing to automate your workflow.

I just spent 15 hours travelling to Barcelona and got a good head start on writing an article for this site on just this subject. I hope to finish on the way home.