First off, thank you to everyone who has and is creating Inkspace. I am very new to the program, and to the open source world, and I'm really impressed and inspired by the work y'all are doing. Thank you!

Just so that we are all on the same page, I am not a graphic designer, so there's a very good chance I'm either making this much more complicated than it needs to be, or I'm asking something that isn't possible. Here goes:

I have downloaded a vector file from the internet and opened it in Inkspace (I do not have Adobe Illustrator, only Photoshop.) I have manipulated the vector image, and would like to change it's color to match the blue in my organization's logo. I have to rasterize the image in Photoshop before I can change colors, but once I have rasterized the image, the bounding area is gone and using the paint bucket ends up painting the entire document. It seems that I'll need to change the color in Inkspace before importing the image to Photoshop, but I haven't found a way to do that. The CMYK color code for the blue I am using in Photoshop does not create the same color of blue in Inkspace. I did an online search but couldn't find an answer I was able to understand.

Both of the documents I created in Inkspace and Photoshop are set for CMYK.

Thank you for any advice and/or direction you can offer!

Hello there,

Inkscape not yet supports cymk mode.
As far as I know there is an extension for exporting in that on linux.
There are several topics on it on this forum, and scribus always comes up as an alternative for saving work.

But the photoshop possibilities are much more than what you can achieve with the vectors when it comes to the colours.
You can define a pantone colour for your logo in monotone mode, which is the best for silk printing.
For that, you need your logo drawn with white on a black background, then set it as a layer mask for a solid filled layer with the right colour.
You can produce the right material by exporting a black and white coloured png from inkscape.