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Color modes and settings - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Web Design
Color modes and settings
- [Instructor] Let's talk about color management settings that are specific to a web-based workflow. The goal of color management is to keep colors consistent across an array of displays. This is a good thing in theory, but unless you pay close attention to your color settings when generating web graphics, the browsers can take over and assign their own values. This might not seem overly important at first, but when an official corporate blue suddenly shifts to a purple hue, chances are you're going to hear complaints. In this example, I have a logo. The version on the left is an RGB version. The version on the right is showing you what could happen if the web browsers are allowed to convert the RGB. As you can see, the graphic becomes much more de-saturated and much more muted. We lose some of the vibrancy and a richness that was in the original logo. Adobe RGB 1998 color space has a gamut that's over 30% larger than sRGB. Which means that colors in RGB tend to be more vibrant. In…
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