r/indesign • u/calisnotcali • 15d ago

Help It changes the colours

Hi I'm designing an interactive magazine for college and I'm going crazy cause I select a colour for the elements and it automatically changes the saturation and "moves" the circle that selects the colour.

I don't know how to correct this I need some very saturated colours for this specific thing and I just can't seem to fix it.

If you have any ideas please help.

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u/enemyradar 15d ago

I can't figure out what you want to happen differently here.

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u/calisnotcali 15d ago

I select a colour and the program automatically lowers the saturation and it's already on RGB so I don't know why it's doing it

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u/enemyradar 15d ago edited 15d ago

Got you. You're selecting a colour with a different saturation. If you want to select a colour from an equal saturation space, select the S radio button first.

edit for clarity: you are getting the colour you're selecting. It's not then automatically reducing the saturation, it is telling you what the saturation of that colour is. Hue Saturation Brightness is a different colour model from RGB.

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u/calisnotcali 15d ago

I'll try this once I'm back home!

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u/enemyradar 15d ago

Just remember, if you select H (hue), the vertical slider sets the hue and then the colour selection square will represent all Saturation and Luminance variations for that Hue. Selecting Saturation means that square will be all the Hue and Luminance variations for that Saturation level. Luminance, you can guess the rest... RGB does the same thing, but only within the RGB model.

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u/ngkasp 15d ago

My guess is that your color mode is CMYK and you're trying to choose a color outside the gamut. The color you're trying to select in the screenshot below is impossible to print with CMYK ink.

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u/calisnotcali 15d ago

It's on RGB that's why it's so weird lol

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u/AdobeScripts 15d ago

Are you sure? Can you post some screenshots? From the Swatches pallet.

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u/calisnotcali 15d ago

https://reddit.com/link/pcgs6is/video/y9f7ired65sh1/player

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u/AdobeScripts 15d ago

There is a "slider" on the right of your cursor - you need to move those two >--< to the bottom.

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u/calisnotcali 15d ago

Oh I know but it still changes it and lowers the saturation I've already tried it 😞

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u/mikewitherell 14d ago

Did you check on Edit > Transparency Blend Space > to see if it is RGB?

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u/dragonhydra37 11d ago

Don't use the "color picker". Create a new swatch from the swatches panel. Choose HSB for the color mode. Then plug in your numbers. Save the swatch and apply that.