Colors appear different across apps

[Julie26782558u3zb]

Hello. I've synced my color settings across all apps using Bridge (North America General Purpose 2), but I'm still seeing slightly different sRGB colors depending on which app I'm using. I checked the settings in each app, and they look identical after syncing them in Bridge, so I have no idea why this is happening. In InDesign and Illustrator, the colors are a little washed out. In Photoshop and Acrobat, they look brighter, like I believe they're supposed to look. In InDesign, I also noticed that when I add one of the colors to a shape, the color I'm adding looks brighter in the color picker and in my CC Library. Help?

[Eugene Tyson]

@rob day 

can you check what your view Proof Setup is across all apps?

I don't think the colour swatches in CC libraries are colour accurate. 

What really matters is the value in the Separations Panel in the document - and that it matches when converted to PDF. 

[rob day]

Hello. I've synced my color settings across all apps using Bridge (North America General Purpose 2), but I'm still seeing slightly different sRGB colors depending on which app I'm using.

Sync’ing Color Settings doesn’t necessarily affect an existing document’s appearance, it’s the assigned color profiles that manage the document, and those assignments might be different. Check Edit Assign Profiles... in all your documents to make sure sRGB is actually assigned.

Also, InDesign has a Transparency Blend Space, if it is set to CMYK and there is any transparent object on the spread, the RGB color will be displayed in the document’s CMYK space and could change in appearance. Same would happen if you turn on Overprint Preview.

[Julie26782558u3zb · Accepted solution]

I think I figured out the problem, and it seems to be a bug. The colors look different in CPU and GPU view for some reason. I've switched to CPU in InDesign and Illustrator, and now everything looks consistent across apps. Thanks!