Adobe RGB in Illustrator?

[VinniPereira]

Hello,

I like to send comic strips I make on Photoshop to Illustrator to make the lettering and balloons.

I notice that, while I have great colors when working on Photoshop, they get a bit muted on Illustrator.

I think it's the Color profile. I can recover it by sending the Illustrator File back to Photoshop and saving it there...

But would there be a way to change how Illustrator tweak colors, color profiles, so it can retain the colors of the file or something?

I don't know if it works this way...

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Make sure your color settings are the same in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Adobe Bridge can do that for you, Edit > Color Settings > Sync settings, or you can do it manually in both Illustrator and Photoshop.

[Ton Frederiks]

And use the same working space. If your Photoshop files are RGB, your Illustrator documents should be RGB too, to avoid conversion. Use Gray instead of CMYK black for lettering and balloons.

[VinniPereira]

What is this gray that differs from CMYK Black? What value of gray?

[Ton Frederiks]

When you work in RGB and want to keep black as black when printing (separating) CMYK, grayscale will be separated to the black plate only. So avoid using the black swatch, but use the grayscale slider.

[Ton Frederiks]

And if you must work with CMYK documents in Illustrator, link the Photoshop files and do not embed them.