Adobe Illustrator - Adjust Color Balance - Grayed Out - Why?

[Joe Pozerycki Jr.]

I'm now using Adobe Illustrator CC / Creating a CMYK file for print / selected a placed CMYK photo image and want to slightly adjust the colorization / selected the photo > Edit > Edit Colors > Adjust Color Balance ... however the Adjust Color Balance command (and all of the others) is grayed out. Why?

[Kanikas]

Moving to Illustrator​

[Jeff Witchel, ACI · Accepted solution]

Probably the Image is Linked. To adjust the Color Balance, I believe the file needs to be Embedded.

Go to the Options menu of the Links panel (Window > Links) and choose Embed.

Now you should be able to adjust color under the Edit menu.

[Joe Pozerycki Jr.]

Thank you, Jeff ... that embed command solved this particular issue. However when this took place - I noticed that it "softened" the image a bit. So then I wanted to unsharp mask, but found out that Adobe took this away with 64bit processing. Hopefully it will come back with future updates.

Thanks again, Joe.

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

Happy to help Joe!

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