Adobe Illustrator - Adjust Color Balance - Grayed Out - Why?

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August 23, 2017
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I'm now using Adobe Illustrator CC / Creating a CMYK file for print / selected a placed CMYK photo image and want to slightly adjust the colorization / selected the photo > Edit > Edit Colors > Adjust Color Balance ... however the Adjust Color Balance command (and all of the others) is grayed out. Why?

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Correct answer Jeff Witchel, ACI

Probably the Image is Linked. To adjust the Color Balance, I believe the file needs to be Embedded.

Go to the Options menu of the Links panel (Window > Links) and choose Embed.

Now you should be able to adjust color under the Edit menu.

Jeff Witchel, ACI

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Probably the Image is Linked. To adjust the Color Balance, I believe the file needs to be Embedded.

Go to the Options menu of the Links panel (Window > Links) and choose Embed.

Now you should be able to adjust color under the Edit menu.

J

Joe Pozerycki Jr.Author

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Thank you, Jeff ... that embed command solved this particular issue. However when this took place - I noticed that it "softened" the image a bit. So then I wanted to unsharp mask, but found out that Adobe took this away with 64bit processing. Hopefully it will come back with future updates.

Thanks again, Joe.