Dual Colour Values for Each Colour Swatch for CMYK and RGB Modes
I use brand colours that have specific colour values in CMYK and RGB. When I create a design in RGB and then have to convert it to CMYK for print I have to import the CMYK swatches after changing the document colour mode to CMYK and then globally replace all the colours. I would like it if when you define a swatch you can have an option to give it an RGB value for RGB mode and a CMYK value for CMYK mode. Then you could switch between colour modes without having to deal with new swatches and colour replacement. I'm sure this could work and it would be a game-changer for me to only have to deal with one set of dual-value colour swatches for each client/brand.
Tom Sharpe
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odongarcia
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Long time away we have several problems on conversión, both rgb to cmyk or cmyk to rgb. Todays brand needs use multi-channel enviroments. The use of Adobe Library´s made this ecosistem too much efective, but here we aways have the same problem with samples, the conversión works well at 99% of photographys but at only a 10% of color samples, that usually are well defined on corporate colors.
We usually made in-design or illustrator files both to web content or to be printed in hard systems, sometimes change colors samples by hand on all of assets are imposible. Define the output of a sample both in RGB and CMYK will solve most of color problems on corporate brands. Thank you! -
Ton commented
This goes back to the primeval times before color management existed. You would have specific numbers that would only work on a specific device. Your RGB numbers would give different results on various devices (displays, film) and CMYK values will give different results with various printing processes. As long as you don't tell which ICC profile should be associated with the numbers, the results will be unpredictable.
