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Colors look different when importing palette from Color CC to Photoshop

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
April 4, 2017
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Hello,

I have created a set of colors on the Color CC website.

I'm in Photoshop and trying to import the colors through the palette in my library.

I was hoping there would be a way to do the whole thing at once but it looks like I have to do each individually.

However, my main problem is that each of the colors is showing up way less saturated in Photoshop.

The hex numbers are the same. And the file I'm in is RGB (although I'm just trying to add them to the swatches panel).

And another crazy thing is that when I add them to the swatches and have the "add to my current library" checked, the color looks different again.

How come I can't get the same color to look the same in all 3 instances??

Thank you

Cameron

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D Fosse

Community Expert

I'm not familiar with Color CC, but it's likely not color managed.

Numbers mean nothing unless they refer to a particular color space. The same numbers - yes, hex numbers too - will produce different colors in sRGB, Adobe RGB or ProPhoto.

In the absence of proper color management, sRGB is the safest bet, so assign that in Photoshop and see if that gets you there.

The Adobe policy still seems to be that anything that has to do with web doesn't need to be color managed. I've no idea why this idea is so persistent.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Color CC as with most Adobe apps, use the AdobeRGB color settings as their default. I'm guessing Cameron's Photoshop is set to sRGB or something else entirely.

D Fosse

Community Expert

kstohlmeyer1 wrote
Color CC as with most Adobe apps, use the AdobeRGB color settings as their default. I'm guessing Cameron's Photoshop is set to sRGB or something else entirely.

Er...that doesn't make any sense. Just because it has "Adobe" in the name doesn't make it a logical default in any apps, Adobe or not.

The point is that when you don't have color management, you're working in monitor color space - not Adobe RGB, not sRGB. But since sRGB most closely resembles most people's actual displays, it can be used as a fallback default. The whole internet has always been based on this fallback.

The OP's example mostly looks like colors created in sRGB, with sRGB numbers - but viewed in monitor color space. Close to sRGB, but not a match, and that causes them to display slightly differently.

To view accurately, you must assign sRGB to the file, in a color managed application such as Photoshop. Only then do the numbers, including hex numbers, take on a specific meaning and refer to specific colors. Before that they're just arbitrary numbers.

Photoshop will then convert it correctly into your monitor color space and display the sRGB numbers accurately. That's a color managed pipeline.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

There are different variations of RGB - Adobe RGB, sRGB, etc. and each instance could be using a different variation (or none at all).

Check your color settings in Photoshop under Edit/Color Settings.

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