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Tizy13
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November 22, 2022
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Cannot create specific colour, it changes to another one

  • November 22, 2022
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Hello, I'm an Illustrator newbie, so I hope that this is an basic error. So I'm trying to do an neon blue/turquoise color (RGB 0,255,239) and even tho, I've tried multiple ways to accomplish it (color wheel, rgb numbers, colour palettes, sample from another picture) I can't. The color on the wheel/ rgb sliders is the one I want, but it always changes it's colour to daker, greyish blue (usually, RGB 68, 189, 206). And when I past any picture including the colour I want, it changes to the greyish one. The Illustrator swatches colour palletes don't even include such colour. Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem or what could I do differently?

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Correct answer Michael J. Hoffman

Is it possible you've created your document in CMYK color mode? CMYK's gamut is not capable of richly saturated RGB colors. When the color is out of gamut, the RGB sliders will snap back to the closest match (which may not be very close in the case of highly saturated colors).

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loulouka273498286e05
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November 29, 2022

You are in grayscale color mode . Go to Image/Mode and change to RGB or CMYK .

Michael J. Hoffman
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Michael J. HoffmanCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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November 22, 2022

Is it possible you've created your document in CMYK color mode? CMYK's gamut is not capable of richly saturated RGB colors. When the color is out of gamut, the RGB sliders will snap back to the closest match (which may not be very close in the case of highly saturated colors).

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