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Mar 31, 2024 3:06 AM UTC
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What color space does the Adobe Color Wheel refer to?

When I find a color I like in the Adobe Color Wheel (https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel), I like to pull it over into PS as a solid fill layer for color grading. However, I notice a sometimes significant shift in the color. I know the internet is in sRGB and my image in PS is in ProPhoto. What color space does the adobe color wheel refer to? Or why do I see a sometimes significant shift in the color? Or maybe I'm just doing something wrong. I use the eyedropper on the adobe webpage, find a color I like from my image and then create a color scheme from that image. Then, I copy the new colors I like into solid fill layers for color grading.

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    Jeff Arola
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    Apr 3, 2024 3:13 AM UTC

    Did you try saving the Color Theme to your Libraries, right clicking on one of the colors then clicking Apply color overlay?

     

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    Participant
    Apr 10, 2024 3:32 AM UTC

    Whoa. That's a cool tip. That'll definitely speed me up. Thanks! I'll attach a couple screenshots - one with PS in ProPhoto and one with PS in sRGB. I'm sure it's just a color space thing where the browser shows the hex number one way and photoshop shows it another way. Maybe I oughta look into another way to color grade or just live with it. Or maybe it really doesn't matter haha

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    rob day
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    Apr 27, 2024 3:53 PM UTC

    Hi @Tanner26624355y2s1 , If you want to color manage the application your theme colors into some other space than sRGB, save the theme’s Color Mode as Lab. In that case when you apply a color to your document its appearance will be maintained:

     

     

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