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Can't reproduce certain colors in CMYK

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    • July 11, 2017 at 12:17 am #95979
      Pauline Swinnen
      Member

      Hello,

      I’m currently working on a trifold folder in Indesign. I have received a couple color codes from the customer.

      RGB: 132 238 171
      #90EEB2
      #AED9DA
      #AOC1B8
      #7BD4CC
      #8BCBC8

      I’m working in a CMYK document, but the RGB color and some of the hexcodes can’t be reproduced in CMYK. Indesign always gives me a warning that the colors are situated out of the gamut. These colors are than replaced by the closest CMYK colors.

      I have tried to convert to RGB, but here I also receive the same warning. I have also tried to enter these colors in Adobe Kuler in order to enter the CMYK values in Indesign. But than again Indesign choses the closest CMYK colors.

      Does it have something to do with the color settings in Bridge? My color settings are currently set to Europe, general purpose 3.

      Thank you for your help!

    • July 11, 2017 at 2:59 am #95980
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      This has been answered in the other place you asked: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2356154

    • July 11, 2017 at 3:37 am #95981
      Niels JÌürgen Pedersen
      Participant

      Those colours are all screencolors – they can’t be reproduced in printing. Colours on a screen are light, on paper colour are reflection.

    • July 11, 2017 at 6:31 am #95985
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Pauline, I just want to confirm: Are you actually trying to print this document? Or are you making an InDesign document that is designed mostly for on-screen viewing? If you are making an on-screen document (such as an epub or interactive pdf), then you can go ahead and make these colors as RGB colors. You will probably also want to change Edit > Transparency Blend Mode to RGB mode.

      It is only when printing on a CMYK printer that these colors may be a problem.

    • July 14, 2017 at 12:54 am #96048
      Walter Boyd
      Member

      You try to control it and minimize the damages:

      1.Select your RGB color from the colors list and press “new color”.
      2.Double click on your new color, inside the new color, change the mode to RGB, make sure you don’t have the error message and control the RGB handlers until you get to the desired color.
      3. you have 2 options, either replace the colors in the find and replace the window (both objects and characters) or delete the old RGB color, and when you do that Indesign will ask you with what to replace it, and choose your new CMYK color. I recommend doing the last option, that way you have no doubt you changed each and every single place where the old color was.
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    • July 27, 2017 at 8:00 pm #96403
      Marcos Abdallah
      Member

      As others have already stated, this will only be a problem if you’re going to print it. If it is designer for web or similars, it’s ok to use RGB

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