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August 7, 2023
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color change when adding an Illustrator logo file to CC Library

  • August 7, 2023
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I recently added a team member and am working to get our CC library updated and also we are starting to experiment with Adobe Express and setting up/adding a Brand.  

 

When I add an illustrator file into our shared CC library it is changing the RGB color of the file.  I can tell it is changing it because I can instantly add that asset into my illustrator file that I used to add it to the CC Library, and the R value is changed from 0 to 25.  WTH? I noticed it in Indesign because i had some icons saved to the library, and some i had not saved there yet, and the colors did not match.  Also occurs in Express.

 

Can someone please explain to me why it is doing this and if there is anything we can do to fix it?  It is causing matching problems in Express when we set the background to our specific Blue - and then all of our assets do not match that background - even though they were created and added to CC Library with the same color.

 

On another tangent - i re-colored all my assets in illustrator and set them to RGB color mode and added them to my CC Library.  One of them  will not come through with even close to the same color as the rest. It has the right color in my original AI file - but once it is in the CC Library the color is much darker. (TThis image is slightly more complex than the rest only because it has several of the same image repeated to make a pattern).

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iAmJamalRashad
Participant
April 19, 2024

Hi.

 

Double-check if you're working in 32-bit. I had this issue and when I changed to 8-bit and 16-bit, it worked out for me.

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 7, 2023

Are you working in the same color mode? So are objects that are added to the library from an RGB file also used in an RGB file and are CMYK objects used in CMYK files?

Are the objects used in a document that has the same profile as the document that was used to add the objects to the library?

Can you turn on the warnings for missing and mismatched profiles in your Color Settings?

Community Expert
August 8, 2023

Another question along these lines: does the artwork contain any unique blending modes, transparency effects, etc? Some of these effects can yield very bad color shifts if the document's color mode is changed from RGB to CMYK and vice versa. Some of the colors change dramatically just by ungrouping items (I was dealing with some customer provided artwork with such behavior earlier today). Likewise, unpredictable things may happen by taking such artwork outside of Illustrator's native environment.

Participant
August 8, 2023

Thanks Bobby for your reply.  There were not any special effects or anything - just a basic shape and one color illustrator file.