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Color Picker won't change the color properly?

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November 7, 2012
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Hi guys,

I have a weird issue with the color. When I changed the color from dark green to bright lime green on Color Picker. The Color Picker show the specific color I want and then I click "OK". It did not change the dark green to bright lime green... instead it show the dull green color. It is really bugging me because I can't figured it what wrong with it. I checked the Color Mode (RGB mode) and Color Setting... everything seems to be right to me.

Here is the quick screenshot:

I also tested with other color, it still have the same problem. They won't show the bright color, it show the dull color instead.

I hope you guys can help me out!

Thanks,

Christie

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Correct answer Wade_Zimmerman1

From the information you are supplyng us wih and from the screenshot it appears quite clearly you are mistaken the Color Mode is CMYK and not RGB just look at you screen shot and you will see what I mean.

The Document Color mode in both screenshots indicates CMYK.

The color you see is expected. Change the color mode properly to RGB and it will solve your problem.

ermilomagana_mx

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i was having the same issue, i had to open PS and there with the color picker get the hex value i needed, its not a solution per se but i can keep working at least.

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alexlanguages

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Hi guys,

It seems I have exactly the same problem here.
I'm trying to understand how to change CYMK to RGB and I know the solution is easy but I really don't know how to do it and it's been a while I'm looking for the solution now

I tried to go to the "color settings" but there are like a billon possible choices.
I tried to go to Window > Color > Swatches but nothing happened ...

Thank you in advance for your help.

Have a great day !

Alex.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

alexlanguages schrieb:

I tried to go to the "color settings" but there are like a billon possible choices.
I tried to go to Window > Color > Swatches but nothing happened ...

As for the Color settings, please read about color management. There are dozens of web sits and tutorials and trainings dedicated to it. Both free and paid.

As for document color modes please read the documentation

Change the color mode of a document via File > Document color mode

All the colors inside the document (including swatches) will be converted accordingly. You need to check all the definitions afterwards, because the change is made by color management so your settings need to be correct before chaning the color mode.

These links are just a start. You will need to read much more:

Overview of color in Illustrator

Creative Suite * Understanding color management

This is a paid ressource

Color Management Fundamentals

abdoriginal

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I am having this same problem. But I have Creative Cloud, so my version of InDesign is CC 2017. I'm working on my final, and I need to show what colours I used on my final, which I made in Experience Design Beta, and I used #65FF58. But when I enter it on InDesign, it changes to #8AC542. These answers given above are all so complicated. I just need a yes or no, can it be fixed? If so, how?

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Are you working in InDesign or Illustrator? This is the Illustrator forum.

Even if you're working in Illustrator, please create your own thread and describe step by tep what you have done. You might or might not have the same issue as the original poster. And in order to not mess everything up, make your own thread.

Also: we would need to know in which color mode you are working (document color mode). If you are working in CMYK document color mode, this is expected behaviour.

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Wade_Zimmerman1Correct answer

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From the information you are supplyng us wih and from the screenshot it appears quite clearly you are mistaken the Color Mode is CMYK and not RGB just look at you screen shot and you will see what I mean.

The Document Color mode in both screenshots indicates CMYK.

The color you see is expected. Change the color mode properly to RGB and it will solve your problem.

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ChristieDesignAuthor

Participant

It finally works!

Thanks for finding this simple problem... I wish I have noticed that soon -_-.

DrStrik9

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This is why we call it "YMCK" -- sung to the Village People tune. :+D

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emil emil

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check this thread

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4743901#4743901

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ChristieDesignAuthor

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Thanks emil emil for the link.

I checked the issue and it still did not fix the problem

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emil emil

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Let's agree to disagree on this.

In my experience, when working in CMYK, it is best to not think in terms of RGB at all, since the two gamuts are very different. If I'm doing a CMYK document, I always use the CMYK sliders rather than the RGB picker, but this comes from many years of experience, and many little knowledge-bits such as keeping the already "muddy" CMYK gamut as pure as possible, by only using two, or possibly three of the four colors in a tint.

Perhaps Adobe should make the RGB picker disappear in CMYK documents, to not give the impression to the inexperienced that it is a useful tool when working in CMYK. But as in all crafts, the artist is (or should be) in charge, not the tools.

Cheers,

DS

DrStrik9 wrote:
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In my experience, when working in CMYK, it is best to not think in terms of RGB at all, since the two gamuts are very different. If I'm doing a CMYK document, I always use the CMYK sliders rather than the RGB picker ...

We are talking about the Color Picker, it is not defined as an RGB picker, you can pick colors there by typing numeric values in CMYK, RGB, HSB, and the hexadecimal models, and you can just click on the palette to pick a color. The user goes to the Color Picker when working in a CMYK document to choose a color for the document and not to think in terms of RGB. However the color picker is useless for this purpose because it displays the colors there in the color space of the monitor which is very different from the color space of the document.

Perhaps Adobe should make the RGB picker disappear in CMYK documents, to not give the impression to the inexperienced that it is a useful tool when working in CMYK

Well, hello with this you are saying in other words what I said about how the color picker should work - make it color managed like the color spectrum in the Color panel so that it displays the colors in the color space of the document. For example in CMYK document the color picker should display CMYK colors (or said in your words the RGB display of the colors disappear)