bug: RGB colors change to Grayscale

[thesergie]

The Problem:

Any RGB swatches I create in a gradient that are gray automatically switch to Grayscale swatches when i want to edit them later.

Description:

I only work with the HSB (Hue Saturation Brightness) color picker in Illustrator CS5. So when i create a gradient i add colors using the HSB color picker. It makes a RGB-value color swatch in the gradient. The problem arrises when i add a color swatch to a gradient that has any form of grey (rgb12,12,12 or rgb150,150,150, so on). After creating it using the HSB picker, when i go back to edit the color value later it ends up being in grayscale mode when actually i created it in RGB. It's frustrating because i have to re-create each gray color in the gradient in RGB. It wouldn't be a problem if the Grayscale grays looked the same as RGB grays, but they dont.

Maybe HSB chooses the right color space for the color? Is it supposed to do that? Does anyone know how to fix this?

This is one of the most annoying things I wrestle with on a daily basis and it's been around for as long as I know (back to CS at least). People have noted their frustration on the website link below, but it there is no solution...

http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/illustrator-101-the-annoying-grayscale-color-problem

Thanks for the help!

Sergie

[Ton Frederiks]

It does not convert to grayscale in the most recent versions, although it looks like grayscale, the percentages are not equal.