The reason is that In. Design knows what the colors are supposed to look like in the tagged image (the one with the color profile in it), but it has no clue what the colors look like in the one with no profile. You almost certainly want your In. Design documents to have a default RGB profile of s, and rgb.
So, does the color change between illustrator and InDesign documents?
Lets dig in! The color stays the same between Illustrator documents, but if I C+P from In. Design – or vice versa – the color value literally changes before my eyes. And I don’t mean it just “looks” different, the actual number changes.
How do I change the color of a box in InDesign?
Drew a box in In. Design, C+P’d the color values into it, and it DID change to the correct color for an instant., and clicked okay. Clicked back into the color picker and the color is now #f8f1e1 / 2% 3% 11% 0%.
Why do my pictures look different when exported from InDesign?
John should be correct if you are exporting as CMYK, look up “Color Gamut” online and you can see the difference between RGB and CMYK color models. You might want to check to see if the box you have the picture imported into in in. Design has a very light fill applied, as well. Often that will shade a picture when exported if not turned to “none“.
How do you fill a picture with a color in InDesign?
Click once, and In. Design will place the image. Finally, bring up the Swatches panel by clicking the swatch icon in the control panel, or selecting “Window” > “Color” > “Swatches”. Click on the Fill icon and choose a fill color to apply it to the entire graphic frame, behind the actual graphic.
How do I add a background to my InDesign project?
However, a few intelligently placed backgrounds can enhance a design and define individual sections of a page. First, load an existing In. Design project, or start a new one by launching the program and choosing “Document” in the Create New section.
This begs the question “How do I place an image in InDesign?”
Double-click on the image file, and then position your cursor where you’d like the image to go. Click once, and In. Design will place the image. Finally, bring up the Swatches panel by clicking the swatch icon in the control panel, or selecting “Window” > “Color” > “Swatches”.
Finally, if you’d like to change your background to an image file, you can use the previously mentioned steps (“File” > “Place”) to place an image on the page, and then select it with the Selection tool. Click on the “fx” icon in the top menu, and select “Transparency”.
What is the use of transparency in InDesign?
Using Transparency forces the display to use “accurate colors” for your current Document Color space. Since not every color can be converted accurately from RGB to CMYK (In. Design’s default color space), ID converts them to the nearest possible value.