Color picker preview doesn't match color field

[teeex]

Color picker preview in Illustrator doesn't match the circled color in the color field, and in the document. As you can see below, the selected color in the color field matches the document. But the preview shows it as much brighter.

I don't have this problem in Photoshop. Everything matches, as you can see below.

These are both blank documents that I started in RGB profile. The color settings are the same.

Illustrator:

Photoshop:

It looks like the Illustrator preview matches the color in my Windows Photos viewer, as seen below.

Also, when I screenshotted it and pasted it into Photoshop, the hex code for the Photos viewer is the same code as the original! But the code for the PS/AI screenshots dimmed. I guess when I screenshot, it's being recorded in the Windows color space which is brighter so the PS/AI colors would be dimmed down.

Anyhow, I don't know why the Illustrator preview is matching the Windows color. It's not like that in Photoshop. How can I fix this? Or is this an Illustrator bug?

Thanks.

[Monika Gause]

So this is an RGB document?

And the sRGB color profile applied to it?

Is any color proof option turned on?

[teeex]

"Proof Colors" is unchecked so that means no color proof option is turned on, right? Sorry, I'm new to Illustrator.

[Monika Gause]

And is the color proof in Photoshop turned on?

RGB document in Photoshop as well? And also the same color profile?

[teeex]

Color proof in Photoshop is turned off.

Yes, RGB document and same color profile.

[Monika Gause]

Then I have only one thing left: can you turn off GPU acceleration in both apps?

There's a color management forum, you can try there as well.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/color-management/bd-p/Color-Management?page=1&sort=latest_replies&fil...

[baylock]

This post is old but I think I can contribute to the community here since I had the exact same problem with the same settings but all my eyedropper selections were darker (or lighter) than they needed to be.
It was quite simple to solve and had nothing to do with the profiles :
It was just that, when the eyedropper tool was open, I had to change the "sample size" parameter (that is on the top left side of the screen) to "Point sample" because I used "11x11 average" before and forgot about it.
Therefore, the color showed was never the same as the one I picked since it took the average of all the colors in a 11x11px area around my sample point.
Don't know if that was your problem but it was mine and it might help other people, even though it's a specific use case.

[Monika Gause]

Therefore, the color showed was never the same as the one I picked since it took the average of all the colors in a 11x11px area around my sample point.

By @baylock

That's a good idea!

Did you pick colors from a photo or from a solid rectangle? If the sample area would affect picking colors from a solid color area, that would be a bug, but for photos the behaviour would of course be correct.

[defaultfc0ixwjg74jt · Accepted solution]

It's an old thread, I know, but I had a similar problem and found out why. My color picker got the colors I picked from imported png's in my RGB file wrong. The problem went away when I embedded the images rather than linking them. No idea why, but it worked...

[Moment Hunter]

thanks bro