Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to talk about a problem that I had
recently that was just driving me nuts. So I just updated Illustrator, and Photoshop and Bridge, but
I hadn't updated InDesign yet - that was still on 2020. So anyway, when I opened up an Illustrator
file after this update, all my colors were super saturated, they were almost like neon. And when
I would open an InDesign file, I would have the opposite problem. Everything was washed out, dull,
ugly. And apparently this is a bug that Adobe's been trying to fix. So I'm going to give you a
few different ways to fix it. So the first way to fix this, and this fixed it for me,
is to trash your Bridge Color Settings. Now the easy way to do this, especially if you
don't really customize your Bridge very much is to quit Bridge. So we'll do that.
And then as you're restarting Bridge, hold SHIFT OPTION and CMD or CTRL ALT SHIFT on a PC.
So I'm going to do that now I'll hold SHIFT OPTION and CMD as it starting up. And now we
get this dialog box to reset the settings, I'm going to go ahead and click on the first two
and then this last one will already be grayed out. So this will reset all of our preferences
and color settings for Bridge. We'll say OK, and then you can also restart Bridge again,
although I don't think I had to do that after I threw away all my preferences, which is just
another way of saying 'reset your preferences.' That fixed the problem for me. Now if that didn't
work for you, you don't need to go into whatever program is giving you trouble. So let's go into
Illustrator. And now let's hit CMD K or CTRL K on a PC and that will bring up your preferences.
That's also under Illustrator, I think it's under Edit if you're on a PC. Then we'll come down here
to Performance. And go ahead and uncheck GPU Performance. Until I found the Bridge fix,
this actually fixed it for me temporarily. Now of course if you do this, you aren't going to
be able to use your Animated Zoom. But that's okay with me - I'm not really crazy about that anyway.
So we'll say OK. Now let's go into InDesign and make some changes there. We'll go to Edit
and then Color Settings right down here. Now for me, they are set to Emulate Adobe InDesign 2.0 CMS
off. If you're seeing that you'll want to change to North America General Purpose 2
or if you're in Europe, you'll probably want to do Europe General Purpose 3,
and then say OK. And that also fixed it for me temporarily before I found the Bridge thing.
Another thing you can try here in InDesign is Edit and then Transparency Blend Space. Your document
in the newer version might've reset to CMYK instead of RGB here, just try whatever option
is not currently checked. Now one thing to note is you'll have to be careful with existing documents
that have been created with the color settings turned off. So that means they will have been
saved with no color profiles. Although I didn't have any problems with Photoshop,
apparently some other people were. So if you're having problems with the colors
in Photoshop - you'll have to have a document open for this - but you can go to Edit > Color
Settings and then up here you can change this to North America General Purpose 2 like before.
You can also go to Edit > Assign Profile, say OK, and then make changes to your profile here.
Mine is set at Adobe RGB 1998. So I'm gonna leave it at that because my colors look fine here.
So here's the thing that's kind of a bummer. If you have documents that you have used when
this was happening to you, they are still going to have that color management profile turned off, so
you'll have to change it under document profiles and you can easily do that in Edit > Assign
Profiles. Anyway, I hope they get this bug fix in. Alright, if you liked this video, please click on
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