From the course: Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office

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Understand color differences

Understand color differences

From the course: Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office

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Understand color differences

- [Voiceover] Another major difference between Adobe CC apps and Microsoft Office apps is how they define color, that is what kind of color libraries they offer. This comes into play when you try to convert an object that's been colored with a source color library that's not available in the receiving program, and what happens is that in the receiving program it just gets converted. Now there's not much you can do about it, it's just good to be aware of what's happening, and there're some instances where your boss or a client might say, "I want this exact color," and it's going to be something that is impossible to do. So let's just take a look at a couple of different programs from Office and from the Creative Cloud. If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, then I think you'll find this very illuminating. Right now I'm in Adobe InDesign and I've got a frame here, a box, and if I want to fill it with a color I go to the Swatches panel, which has some built-in colors, and…

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