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swatches in RGB instead of CMYK

btride
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Jan 09, 2018 Jan 09, 2018

hello,

lately im opening a CMYK file, it is in color mode of CMYK,

and still:

my palette of color swatches at RGB!!

how can it be?

ans what do i do to fix it?

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Doug A Roberts Community Expert
Community Expert , Jan 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018

that's a colour mode, not a document profile. document profiles are here:

profiles1.png

or here, in less obfusticating terms, in the old style window:

profiles2.png

every new document is derived from a document profile whether you know it or not, and every document profile already has a colour mode. thus if you pick a document profile based on Print (CMYK), or change the settings to Custom after picking one based on it, you're using a document with swatches defined in CMYK, even if you change the colour mode to RGB.

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Coree_K_Price
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Jan 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023
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Art & Illustration is a Default Swatch in the version of AI that I am utilizing.

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Ton Frederiks Community Expert
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Jan 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023
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I see, there seems to be a difference between the English US and UK versions:

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