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Jul 31, 2024 6:36 PM UTC
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Illustrator is butchering the colors when I export.

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
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Jul 31, 2024 7:18 PM UTC

Are you using Spot colors that get converted to CMYK?

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Participant
Jul 31, 2024 7:41 PM UTC

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.

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Ton Frederiks
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Jul 31, 2024 7:54 PM UTC

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

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Ton Frederiks
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Jul 31, 2024 7:13 PM UTC

How do you export?

Your exported jpeg is missing a CMYK profile.

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