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UPDATE: I called Adobe Help last week, and they escalated the issue. They've since released an update and my colors now look better than ever across the board - InD, Ai & Ps all look exaclty the same now. It was clearly a bug issue but is now fixed. Just thought I'd share - Thanks!
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You've spec'd different versions of the orange color in the three apps.
Starting with the orange color in InDesign, it is an RGB color hex #D24727 (210|71|39). The document's RGB profile assignment is sRGB so on my machine it looks correct:
The Photoshop file is RGB with no profile assignment, so its appearance would change depending on whatever the Photoshop Color Settings happen to be. With RGB color you always want to embed its profile when you save.
But, it is a different RGB color #D1441D (209|68|29), and not #D24727.
The Illustrator color is from the PANTONE+ Solid Color library, so it is a Lab color, not RGB. Starting with CS6 the solid ink spot color libraries are all defined as Lab:
Lab colors are device independent and are not affected by the document's profile, so the fact that your Illustrator preview seems to be wrong indicates that you may have a monitor profile problem. I would try re calibrating which will create a new monitor profile.
Either share the document or show us a capture of your InDesign Edit>Assign Profiles... dialog, along with a capture of the Colors panel when the text frame is selected. Like what I'm showing below.
I can replicate your D24727 color appearance, but only with ProPhoto RGB as the RGB profile assignment:
In Ai & InD, I've tried adjusting the view, and basic things like that, but have avoided actual color profiles/settings because I've heard they are very hard to fix and not really to be messed with unless you are well versed in it, which I'm not
That's not true. In order to get consistent color you have to pay attention to color modes and the assigned document profiles.
Hex values are simply a different notation for RGB colors used for HTML coding. With HTML the assumption is RGB colors are displayed as sRGB, so to match the hex colors between PS, AI, and ID, you have to make sure the color space is RGB and the document's assigned RGB profile is sRGB.
In Photoshop that is pretty straight forward—create a new RGB mode document with sRGB assigned. In all three apps you can change an existing document's profile via Edit>Assign Profile...
Like Photoshop, Illustrator has a single document color mode, so to create consistent hex colors the mode has to be RGB—File>Document Color Mode>RGB, with the assigned document profile as sRGB.
InDesign lets you use both CMYK and RGB color on the same page, so with Assign Profiles... you choose both a CMYK and RGB profile to handle the color display of the two modes. When you create a new color or swatch make sure its mode is RGB—in the Colors panel choose the mode from the panel's flyout menu.
RGB hex colors profiled with sRGB colors in all 3 apps
In this case the ID version doesn't match because of the ProPhoto RGB assignment.
Hmm... I must be missing something here. As far as I can tell, I followed exactly what you said and saw no difference. I assigned new profiles (sRGB) to all, and maybe I blinked or something - but I saw no difference - on any of them.
I'm not sure if will show up correctly here, but below is a screenshot of what I'm getting. Ps on the left, then InD, and then Ai. In Ai, on the far right, you can see my company color from the library. (hopefully) You can see that it shows differently than what is on the artboard (and yes it is set to that color). Also, it shows that Photoshop is still correct, but the other two are showing over-red.
I tried all the color suggestions in ther thread. No luck. I looked into the Illustrator version and I'm all up-to-date. I also looked at the color profile on my Thunderbolt Display and put it back to factory settings. Still no changes at all. Not sure what to do at this point. I'm trying to accomplish neon green and it looks more like puke green, ugh. What to do now?
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