Color shift when I ‘Create Shapes From Vector Layer’
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I have artwork in an AI file, color set to RGB and NOT using spot colors.
When I ‘Create Shapes From Vector Layer’ in AE the color shifts considerably. The RGB values in AE are completely different, so I have to copy and paste fills from AI. This is extremely frustrating as I have lots of fills and strokes in my artwork.
Seems to have started after the latest AE update.
Any ideas?
Software spec:
- macOS Big Sur 11.0.1
- After Effects 17.7.0 (Build 45)
- Illustrator 25.2
System spec:
- Mac Pro (2019)
- 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W
- 192GB 2933 MHz DDR4 RAM
- AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32GB Graphics Card
Thanks in advance!
Brice
Weird, I never noticed this. Anyway, here is what did the trick for me:
– Check your AI color settings (under “Edit”) and look for your RGB color space, in my case its sRGB IEC61966-2.1
– Check your project settings in AE (little rocket icon) and see what color space is used under “Color”, for me it was none. I set that to the same as in AI and now the color values match for my document.
Be sure to save your project before switching color spaces, cause I just had a hard crash after I switched the color space and then tried to convert an AI file to shapes. Might be a bug?
Hi Robert,
Thanks so much for your help, but unfortunately I’m still seeing different colour values in AE. I wonder if you could give my screenshots a once over to see if I understood your instruction?
1 – AE Project Settings
2 – Shape in AE created by ‘create shapes from vector layer’, note RGB fill AE generated
3 – Shape in AI, note fill I selected is different to AE
4 – AI Color Settings
*Update: Since taking the screenshots I installed bridge and used it to synchronise color settings across Creative Cloud, but I’m still seeing the shift in RGB values in AE.
Hi Brice,
strange, these are the exact settings i used. What are your settings regarding the AI footage itself (interpret footage -> Color)? Maybe there are mismatched color settings
Interpret footage settings match too. Strange 🤔
*Update: I have since tried checking ‘Preserve RGB…’ in the interpret footage dialogue, which results in a complete crash when I then try and convert to shapes. When I say complete crash, I mean it doesn’t even manage to write a log file and I have to power cycle the machine to force quit AE. Buggy!
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