Illustrator keeps oversaturating the color space even though modes/swatches are set correctly.
When opening a file (usually with photography), illustrator will oversaturate all the colors regardless of color settings. Everything will be set to consistent CMYK settings but the colors show up so saturated and it's impossible to work in that space.
Vika Karpitskiy
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Lance
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Vika,
Start with these screenshots:
In Adobe Bridge, Edit > Color Settings
Make sure something appropriate is selected. There are various settings that are general suggestions for various regions of the world. You can customize your settings specific to your workflow/production environment if none of the presets are appropriate. This dialog will also tell you whether color settings are synchronized or not.
Once that's set, check the color settings in Illustrator via Edit > Color Settings
Make sure it says color settings are synchronized. It's also probably a good idea to check other Adobe CC applications you use such as photoshop and/or InDesign, etc. to make sure the settings are synchronized. If settings are already synchronized correctly before you change anything in Bridge, then your Adobe CC color settings are probably not likely to be the issue.
In that case it may be the settings for whether to warn the user of profile mismatches in the illustrator color settings dialog. It's sometimes best if you're regularly working with other people's files (though also sometimes very very annoying) to have all those checkboxes selected because It'll warn you anytime a color profile is missing, or doesn't match your working space.
Each warning dialog will ask what you want to do in those cases - assign a profile, leave it alone (don't color manage the document), etc.
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Vika Karpitskiy
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Th color profile is is CMYK (consistent in swatches, etc). The photos are raster images, but both vector graphic and raster are being affected.
What are the settings in Bridge I should be looking out for?
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Vika Karpitskiy
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This is what it's supposed to look (nice normal skin tones, not too electric) and how it actually looks (oversaturated, red skin, etc)
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Also, can you share screenshots of your settings?
What profile does your linked files use? -
Lance
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Vika,
can you confirm that your color settings are synced in Adobe Bridge?
Are the files in question raster images placed into an open illustrator document, or an existing illustrator document with placed raster images?
Do all the colors become over-saturated, raster images and vector graphics both?
