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colors look dull in indesign after upgrade

Community Beginner ,
Oct 22, 2018 Oct 22, 2018

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In the picture below the top row of colors is what the boxes look like when exported to pdf.

the bottom row is how they look in indesign, like they all have cyan added to them.

What setting in indesign is shifting my colors. New problem after upgrading to indesign 2019.

Screen Shot 2018-10-22 at 1.24.37 PM.png

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Community Beginner , Oct 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

I am happy to report that I solved it! I went into the indesign edit>color settings> then updated it to North America General Purpose 2.

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Community Beginner , Oct 24, 2018 Oct 24, 2018

This link has the solution. You need to throw away the color preferences for bridge, then restart bridge and all the apps stay synced.

Thank you everyone for all of your help.  ; )

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Explorer , Apr 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021

Just wanted to reply to this thread in case Adobe is watching, as I had the same problem just now. After trying several solutions in this thread, the one that worked for me was the one beccaru posted about changing the color settings back to North America General Purpose 2 worked for me, but I don't know how it changed in the first place. It's concerning that this issue lingers three years after others have the same problem.

 

Specs for me:

  • MacBook Pro 16" (2019)
  • MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
  • InDesign 2021
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Community Expert ,
Oct 22, 2018 Oct 22, 2018

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Try turning off GPU Performance. There have been a number of reports of duller colors when GPU is on with CC 2019. Click on the rocket ship in InDesign's top menu bar for quick access to it.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 22, 2018 Oct 22, 2018

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the problem is the color setting in indesign in not staying synced across all the applications. I have set it in bridge, but inDesign will not retain the setting.

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Community Expert ,
Oct 22, 2018 Oct 22, 2018

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Did you try turning off GPU Performance?

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Mar 17, 2020 Mar 17, 2020

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This fixed my problem, thanks so much. 

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Explorer ,
Apr 18, 2020 Apr 18, 2020

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This worked perfectly for me. Thank you! I would have never thought to look there to solve this problem! All I wanted to do was make red text! It amazed me that I couldn't do it! It was coming out an ugly brownish red, no matter how I changed the color settings. 

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

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Hello, I am having the same issue. Just did the update today. My OS is Sierra 10.12.6 and don't have the rocket ship for the GPU. Does anyone know another way to fix it?

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Community Expert ,
Oct 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

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Check Edit > Transparency Blend Space. Your document in CC 2019 could be set to Document CMYK instead of Document RGB in CC 2018.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

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Thank you for your quick response, but I checked and my document is set at CMYK.

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Community Expert ,
Oct 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

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Thank you for your quick response, but I checked and my document is set at CMYK

InDesign doesn't have a document space, the objects on the page can be a mix of RGB, CMYK, or Lab.

Steve is referring to the Transparency Blend Space, which can affect color but only on pages with transparency. If the blend space is set to CMYK, any RGB colors on the page will be display in as the nearest CMYK color, so the fix for that is setting the Transparency Blend Space to RGB not CMYK.

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Oct 11, 2019 Oct 11, 2019

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This worked for me.

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Nov 02, 2020 Nov 02, 2020

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This was the fix for me thank you!

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New Here ,
Nov 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020

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THANK YOU! This has been bothering me for a long time because of a specific blue we use at my institution. No matter what I did, it came out as purple and no matter what I've tried to do in changing settings, it remained a problem. Until I changed my transparency blend space! Fix still worked 2 years after you posted. Thank you Steve!

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May 06, 2021 May 06, 2021

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This worked gracias 

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Oct 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

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There is a section in InDesign's preferences for GPU Performance. If the option there is greyed out then your monitor is not compatible with it and it is not the problem. If it is not greyed out and it is checked then uncheck it and see if it makes a difference.

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Jul 27, 2020 Jul 27, 2020

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this worked for me too. THANKS!

 

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Amazing - it worked!  I felt like I was going crazy.  Why does this work??

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I am happy to report that I solved it! I went into the indesign edit>color settings> then updated it to North America General Purpose 2.

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Great! Glad  you solved it!

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Apr 01, 2021 Apr 01, 2021

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Thank you! this worked for me as well. 

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This solved it for me in 2021 🙂

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This worked for me as well! Thank you.

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This worked for me as well, would suggest adding it as a (the?) correct answer for the thread.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

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Unfortunatelly, this color issue has nothing in common with GPU performance, nor Transparency Blend Space.

The point is - after upgrade to CC 2019 it is impossible to set (and synchronize) color settings other than default.

In Bridge - default settings are "North America General Purpose 2" - I can change it to (my preferred) Europe Prepress 3. After I hit "Apply" button - it should be synchronized across all CC apps. But no, it is not. Next time I run Bridge - color settings are set to defaults.

The same in InDesign CC 2019 - default settings are set to "Emulate Adobe InDesign 2.0 CMS Off". I can change it, bu only during current session. Next time I run ID CC2019 - color settings are back to default. Even in document saved with different color settings - after next ID run color settings are back to default.@

I hope it will be fixed soon, because it is really annoying especially in production enviroment...

best regards, Artur.

PS

if this helps - I run MacOS 10.14.

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It seems like there is temporary solution:

Creative Cloud 2019 - Not respecting color settings

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