• Global community
    • Language:
      • Deutsch
      • English
      • Español
      • Français
      • Português
  • 日本語コミュニティ
    Dedicated community for Japanese speakers
  • 한국 커뮤니티
    Dedicated community for Korean speakers
Exit
0

Sudden shift in color appearance within CMYK object in InDesign

Explorer ,
Mar 26, 2021 Mar 26, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Before you preach on CMYK and RGB differences within the light spectrum on displays, stop right now.

 

Now that's out of the way: InDesign has taken upon itself to signficantly skew the swatch color appearances of CMYK color values unlike before. I'm unsure where or why this happened, but I'm curious as to whether a setting was reset by accident. My main issue is blue coming across purple.

 

I should also note that swatches within InDesign appear differently than CMYK swatches within my creative cloud library which I use for our brand library. This was not an issue until today. I remember it popping up years ago but can't remember how I remedied the situation.

 

Proof setup is also grayed out, so that could be tied to the issue. If I open the ink manager within the swatch panel, everything appears correctly.

 

Screen Shot 2021-03-26 at 1.37.21 PM.png

TOPICS
Bug

Views

362

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines

correct answers 1 Correct answer

Explorer , Mar 26, 2021 Mar 26, 2021

I actually just fixed it this same way. I had to uninstall and delete all my preferences with InDesign due to a sporadic issue of InDesign loading without my preferences. All I needed to do was reload my color working spaces.

Screen Shot 2021-03-26 at 1.49.19 PM.png

Votes

Translate

Translate
LEGEND ,
Mar 26, 2021 Mar 26, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

What are your colour settings in InDesign, and in the other app that shows different colour? Sounds as if the profile may have changed. It's normal (and correct) that CMYK colours change screen appearance if you change CMYK profile.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Explorer ,
Mar 26, 2021 Mar 26, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

I actually just fixed it this same way. I had to uninstall and delete all my preferences with InDesign due to a sporadic issue of InDesign loading without my preferences. All I needed to do was reload my color working spaces.

Screen Shot 2021-03-26 at 1.49.19 PM.png

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Mar 26, 2021 Mar 26, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Check your Colour Settings in all your apps, including Bridge. There is a current bug resetting your preferences to unexpected settings.

 

Search this forum for what to do if that's the case.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Explorer ,
Mar 26, 2021 Mar 26, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

LATEST

Oh lovely. Thanks for the heads up!

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines