I found it by accident. While in the colour picker tool. Make sure the letter H in HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) is selected, usually, the default is the letter R is selected for the RGB (Red, Green, Blue). That will give you the colour picker like in Illustrator and Photoshop. growbylearning • 1 day ago. Why does Indesign automatically change my CMYK document to RGB. I had an image that I image traced in illustrator because it was not of good quality. It was a simple black and white image with no other colors. When I image traced it i tried everything to change the black color to 60-40-40-100 but it would not keep that color selection I wanted. Couple of things to note: InDesign lets you mix RGB and CMYK colors on a page, while Illustrator has a single document color mode, which has to be either RGB or CMYK. Also the application’s Color Settings don‘t necessarily color manage existing documents—a document can have assigned profiles that are different than the Color Settings There can be problems with converting InDesign native colors, that you have to consider. Any black or gray colors built with black only will convert to 3- or 4-color (with the exception of the default [Black]). Pure primary colors like 100% cyan or 100% yellow might get "contaminated" with other colors. And yes once you do that you will not be As we mentioned in your other posts there is no document color space with InDesign. You could only create and use RGB colors and place RGB images. If you are setting black text in a document that will be printed via offset, you will want the fill to be black only CMYK 0|0|0|100—RGB black will convert to 4-color CMYK at output. Just note that if the document’s Intent is Web you can still turn on Overprint Preview, or create CMYK swatches and colors—the Web Intent initially sets the default swatches and Transparency Blend Space to RGB, but any InDesign document lets you mix RGB, CMYK, and Lab colors, or change the blend space. Feb 25, 2015 at 18:59. What I actually did is just going to the first page, drawing a rectangle, clicking on gradient swatch to assign fill color, and then repeat the same thing on the second page. So there is hardly a reason for different color modes / other swatches to be present. But seemingly in the exported file colors look the same, but Correct answer by rob day. Community Expert , Feb 04, 2021. In the screen capture of your Color Picker you have your cursor set in one of the CMYK fields and the save swatch button reads Add CMYK Swatch. Make sure your cursor is in one of the R, G, or B fields and the button will read Add RGB Swatch. 1 Upvote. Yes, I can see how that would be helpful to have a script that just converts them all. app.activeDocument.colors.everyItem ().properties = {space:ColorSpace.CMYK, model:ColorModel.PROCESS}; Save a copy of your document before, and check everything after running! CMYK and RGB are color models, which are meaningless without a color space to define those colors. Examples of common color spaces are Adobe RGB, sRGB, FOGRA27/FOGRA39 (CMYK), SWAP 2 (CMYK) etc. You need to make sure your InDesign document, placed images, transparancy blend space and export destination color spaces all match. hLFF1da.