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Hello,
I'm having an issue with my colors. And no, it's not a color management skill issue. My original file displays the colors I used. When I duplicate the same file, my colors suddenly change. They go from vibrant to dull. I made sure my colors were correct. Same RGB/HEX values. Both files are set to RGB. What kind of sorcery is this, Adobe? I haven't tried to export. I'm hoping the colors look the same. Regardless, this issue is annoying. Please see the images below. Same color, same RGB/HEX, set to RGB. All I want is for the colors to match. AGAIN, it's not a color management skill issue. It's an Adobe issue. Let me know what's going on here.
Thank you,
Unhappy Adobe Subscriber
Do both files have the same Document Color Profile?
You can check that using Edit > Assign Profile... or turning the show profile option on at the bottom of your window.
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carefree,
At a first glance it looks (a bit) like a an RGB/CMYK Color Mode issue.
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It's not, unfortunately. As I said, the file was duplicated. Both files are identical. Both are set to RGB with RGB/HEX values.
Thanks!
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Pondering.
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carefree,
My next thought was the (im)possibility of one document having been started as CMYK and then changed, and ruled that out because you told us that the original document was duplicated.
Then I tried the following:
First I clicked the double arrows to get the two images shown in full, and they looked very much the same (seen one after the other), quite different to the way they look together in the post.
Then I opened each image in full again and made a screenshot, which I opened in AI and transferred the colour to a path with the Eyedropper, and they were indistinguishable, with almost (but not quite) identical RGB values.
So they look different in the post but the same when seen in full and when sampled.
This may sound too silly, but thinking of (im)possible document corruption, what happens if you create two new RGB documents and then copy and paste the nicely coloured path from the first document into one and the less nicely coloured path from the second document into the other?
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What are we looking at?
The objects in Illustrator?
The file placed in a layout?
The file in a content management system?
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You are looking at colors.
This is posted in the Illustrator forum. So yes, vector-colored objects in Illustrator.
The file is a simple vector AI file.
This is Illustrator. So, this is an Illustrator file with vector objects. Nothing is linked or embedded.
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This is posted in the Illustrator forum.
By @carefree_forest3687
That's why it's so important to show the complete interface in a screenshot.
I know that this is the Illustrator forum, thank you very much.
Based on my experience in this forum, screenshots posted in this forum can be anything.
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You're welcome.
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Do both files have the same Document Color Profile?
You can check that using Edit > Assign Profile... or turning the show profile option on at the bottom of your window.
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Thank you! That worked. I duplicated the original file, though. Why did it change on its own?
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Unfortunately sometimes the Document Color Profile can change silently when creating a new file by opening an image, or by dragging a screendump or dragging a file from Photoshop to an Illustrator document.