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Illustrator CC changing my CMYK color to RGB

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May 11, 2017
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I realized that Adobe Illustrator changes my Document Color Mode from CMYK to RGB by itself. Probably I created RGB file, but I changed that to CMYK. And this is the third times that I changed my Document Color Mode from RGB to CMYK and after a while automatically changes to RGB. I really don't know what is going on. I don't want RGB color mode, I need CMYK. Why does Illustrator keep changing my color mode?

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Correct answer AshutoshChaturvedi

Please upgrade to the latest release we have this issue fixed.

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jam36035088

Participant

this is still happening in 2024 running 28.1 - i set the colour mode as CMYK, change my CMYK values, save and open the file and it's in RGB colour space again

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Where do you change the document color mode?

The only way is in File > Document color mode.

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ericf99111825

Participant

I use adobe Illustrator CC . I've been working with Illustrator for a long time.I hope this helps you

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michaelv43590498

Participant

Not true. I am on the Creative Cloud and using the latest trial. It still keeps switching my CMYK to RGB.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

michaelv43590498 schrieb
Not true. I am on the Creative Cloud and using the latest trial. It still keeps switching my CMYK to RGB.

Please create a new thread and tell us step by step what you are doing so someone can try and reproduce the issue.

AshutoshChaturvediCorrect answer

Legend

Please upgrade to the latest release we have this issue fixed.

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nancyh2029910

Participating Frequently

I just downloaded Illustrator and it's still happening. Do you have any other suggestions? I need to print CMYK!!

Monika Gause

Community Expert

nancyh2029910 schrieb
I just downloaded Illustrator and it's still happening. Do you have any other suggestions? I need to print CMYK!!

What is still happening?

Please provide step by step.

This thread covers several issues

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jonathancallan

Participant

It happens to me when I place an element from the CC library using alt/drag. If I drag a CMYK element to an RGB doc, it changes the color space. It's a big problem when dragging an RGB element to a CMYK because all the colours become RGB.

Regards.
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Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

this one is definitely a bug:

"Place copy" of RGB CC library item in CMYK doc changes document color setting to RGB – Adobe Illustrator Feedback

sounds like a fix should be released soon.

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Thanks Doug. Hopefully benjaminb30776065 will see your post as that could be his issue.

I tested the inverse and does the same if you drop a CMYK library item into a RGB document the document color mode changes. Very dangerous and easily overlooked, but looks like Adobe's next release will correct this, from the link you posted.

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erico99195194

Inspiring

It sounds to me like its an issue

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

Best advice is to start your document with the correct color mode from the beginning. Don't every change the Document Color Mode of an existing file. The results can be unpredictable as you have found.

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sarahb17425618

Participant

Hi,

I am also experiencing this problem, mine and my boss's Illustrator changes our files to RGB for no reason that we can see. We believe this began when we updated Ilustrator to the new look 'New Document' dialog box.

If anyone has an answer to this it would be very helpful.

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Are you saying that this started after updating to CC2017 which has a new look to the New document window?

What OS are you on, and what plug-ins & system additions do you and you boss have installed?

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sarahb17425618

Participant

Yes that is when we started to notice the change.

We are both running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6

I do not have any plug-ins installed. My boss has Esko plug-ins installed which are: Esko Studio Designer and Dynamic Barcodes.

Thank you for your help.

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Have never heard of Illustrator changing the document color mode by itself, are you 100% sure? There is no key command to accidentally hit unless one was made on your system

so the check mark should stay before CMYK and not move on you.

and you can also look here to confirm your doc occur mode

The color palette is very confusing as Adobe allows you to mix color in for example RGB if you are in doc color mode CMYK, and then the numbers change when you deselect and go back.

What OS and Illustrator version? Do you have any plug ins installed? Is there any pattern to this happening, and how quickly?

Benji-11Author

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I've been working with Illustrator for a long time. I'm working on this file for more than a week, every single day I'm working on it. Although I have 32 gigabytes RAM and Great GPU, sometimes my objects become white, sometimes Illustrator turns off Smart Guides by itself. These are another problems I have. Are they really new problems?

Mylenium

Legend

Without actual system information and other details nobody can tell you much. That simply sounds like some external tool is messing with your keyboard configuration.

Mylenium

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