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  • Illustrator Color Issues

    #1
    Attached is a screenshot from within illustrator. On the left side you see the color slider, on the right you see the swatch of the selected color. Obviously the two colors are different. This is driving me crazy, why is this happening?
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  • #2
    The slider on the left shows how the color actually shows up in the document, but teh color on the right is how i want it to look, and how the same numbers appear in photoshop.

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    • #3
      See the little yellow warning triangle? It indicates that the colour you have picked is 'out of gammut' and will be replaced with the closest printable colour.

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      • #4
        while that is true, that doesnt affect the issue described here. The same problem exists when it is in gamut.

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        • #5
          Unless I'm misunderstanding, from the look of your screen capture you're basing it on your color picker (seen below):



          But, as you can tell, the slider only gets you to the "core color" while it's the larger picker on the left that let's you pick what tone of that color you want. which as you can see below can vary drastically.

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          • #6
            I see what youre saying and it does make sense that the saturation or brightness will differ from the slider. However i cant see how the actual hue should change.

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            • #7
              The hue isn't changing (which is evident by the HSB numbers ... Hue, Saturation and Brightness). What you're changing is the saturation and brightness which can definitely produce a quite different color (but still within the same tone unless you go to the extreme of black and white)

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              • #8
                I think by tone you mean hue. I have attached an image that should show whats happening more clearly. You can see the selected object behind the color picker. The object matches the color of what's on the slider, not what's in the swatch.
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                • #9
                  Well then, that is something completely different. Does this always happen, or it's just happening in this one document with that one object?

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                  • #10
                    Your swatch is a combination of Hue, Saturation, and Brightness. The rainbow slider is only a part of that color, the Hue. Saturation and Brightness is chosen by clicking or dragging along the big area to the left of the slider. The further up you go the higher the Brightness value, and the further right, the higher the Saturation value (and vice