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July 31, 2024
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Illustrator is butchering the colors when I export.

  • July 31, 2024
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I'm trying to get high-quality exports of some illustrations I'm working on, but when I export it messes all the colors up. I've attached both a screenshot (shows accurate colors) and an exported jpg (absolutely wrong) for two separate files. Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong? I didn't change any color settings or mess with any export stuff, and it's just WRONG. It's driving me nuts and no one else seems to be having this problem.

  

  

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Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 31, 2024

Are you using Spot colors that get converted to CMYK?

Participant
July 31, 2024

The colors are not spot colors, they're all CMYK. And when I export the jpg they're all under the CMYK color model. They seem to work fine when exported as a pdf so I might just have to stick with that.

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 31, 2024

PDF is probably better anyway, it keeps your vectors vector instead of converting it to a lossy compressed jpeg image.

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 31, 2024

How do you export?

Your exported jpeg is missing a CMYK profile.