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Unintentional colour shifting

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    • May 3, 2011 at 7:10 am #59480
      Schwalenberger
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      Hi everyone!

      First off, I must admit that I pretty much only registered to pose this question. But I will of course try and answer a few myself ;)

      I just upgraded to CS5 (V7.0.4 on a mac with OS X 10.6.7) and I have a weird problem – whenever I try to fill a frame with a solid colour or a gradient, it wouldn´t let me use the colour I previously selected. For example, if I want a frame to be filled with a RGB full red (255/0/0, red “box” ticked) it gives me a washed-out and kinda darkened red. Same goes for gradients though there it´s more of an orange hue. Even weirder, the little box to control the gradient shows the correct red – but it´s not in the document. If I create a “full red” frame via LAB mode, it works fine. I´ve literally spent days googling the matter but haven´t found anything that makes sense. Resetting all presets hasn´t helped either. Here´s an example:

      Gradient problem

      I´m pretty certain I´m just overlooking something completely obvious. I´d be pretty happy if anyone could give me some pointers on what´s wrong here!

      Cheers,

      Philipp

    • May 3, 2011 at 8:14 am #59483
      Theunis De Jong
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      What you're overlooking is this: you are selecting a color in RGB mode, but the document itself is set to CMYK mode. Now InDesign doesn't want you to look surprised when the color you selected doesn't come out of the printer the same (printers cannot print full bright green, for example), so it dims the color on-screen to mimick what it will look like.

      If your document is to be printed, make sure it's set to CMYK mode (that's under “Edit -> Transparency Blend Space”, for some reason) and don't expect all of your screen colors to look the same. For Best Results, don't select RGB colors either, but mix them in CMYK.

      If your document is going to be screen-only (PDF for on-screen, or web, or SWF, or iStuff), change the blend space to RGB.

    • May 3, 2011 at 8:36 am #59485
      Schwalenberger
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      Thank you for your quick reply! I´ve tried that and it didn´t help, unfortunately. I am indeed trying to create a document for on-screen only, thus using RGB would be no problem. I´m using eciRGB for RGB and IsoCoated v2 (also by ECI) and thus should have these things covered. I also tried switching to other profiles but that didn´t help either. :/

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