Illustrator changing color values every time I reopen program v 26.0.2
I'm on a brand new MacBook Pro and I'm using illustrator from the cloud version 26.0.2 on Mac Monterey v 12.1. Every time I close out a file and reopen it the hex colors are changed. I have never touched the setting on my colors. I've attached an example below. You can see that when I was previously working in the file I listed the hex code, but now when I open it it is different. Please help. This is making my branding impossible and I'm turning in projects incorrectly as a result.
Rebecca Russ
shared this idea
-
Rebecca Russ
commented
@lance Thank you for your in depth links. The issue was that I was bringing in photos and allowing the color to adjust so it was changing ever so slightly every time. I changed my color settings and hopefully that solves it.
-
Lance
commented
I have collected here a list of topics that may be of interest to you.
These all deal with color related bugs in Illustrator; some of them are similar, some may not be relevant at all, but the first link may be identical to your issue. That I can tell it hasn't been resolved.
The second link is the only one I have personal experience with, where dragging/dropping a raster image with a different color profile than the working space into an open illustrator document somehow manages to cause a slight shift in the RGB/hex values.
Have you been able to tell whether this same sort of color shift occurs on global swatches or spot colors? If it does not, it might be worth making your important brand colors into global swatches or spot colors as a workaround in the meantime.
*** edit ***
And here's another, but it looks like you already found this one