CHANGING DEFAULT CMYK SWATCHES TO RGB

I've been looking for a way to change the default CMYK swatch to RGB. I've tried everything. CMYK colors - even black ARE NOT ACCURATE. Help?

you just need to change the profile when creating new document
CMYK is Accurate, when printing CMYK!
RGB is Accurate, when displaying in RGB!
colour is a complex thing.

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The problem of the swatches panel not remembering its view setting is a bug that never got corrected in CS3, despite its being discovered and reported very early-on.
Editing the prefs file as described in this link is presently work for me:
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Keep the document in color mode CMYK.
Open the RGB image in photoshop, and convert to CMYK.
Sample in Photoshop the color you need and write that down.
Go to Illustrator and create a swatch with the color you wrote down.
You cannot accurately sample colors from placed photos in Illustrator . Illustrator takes what is sent to the screen in RGB, and then converts that to your color mode. Do NOT use SHIFT eyedropper, though the color looks good your color will not match the CMYK values in your photo.
Illustrator will not change your cmyk document color mode colors to RGB because you sampled with eyedropper. You most likely changed the mode of the color panel to RGB. The color panel should always match the color mode of your document, the panel is misleading otherwise.

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Where is the default color swatches file located for Photoshop CS6? I'm tired of constantly deleting dozens of useless swatches; I want Photoshop to start with a blank Swatches palette every time.

Photoshop loads the last used swatches by default when it loads.
If you want a blank swatch palette, follow instructions here http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSb2031e05d0354a70-1a6fe757133ae6e6508-8000 .html and empty out your default swatches, click on Fly-out menu > Save Swatches > Give a name for your 'Blank swatch'. Close Photoshop.
The next time you open Photoshop, you'll only see the 'Blank Swatch' that you had saved earlier unless you append/ change the swatches in your workflow and quit photoshop with the available swatch panel.

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Short version: Using Illustrator CC. I correctly exported a PNG logo in RGB (sent to client), but the new PNG logo looks much different than the old PNG logo that was exported incorrectly in CMYK (sent to client long ago).
Client wants to know why the NEW PNG logo looks so different than the EPS logo and the OLD PNG logo (all starting with the same Pantone color).
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ai, eps, eps CMYK, pdf, and png
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In the past, the PNGs had been created incorrectly--They had been exported in CMYK mode without converting anything to RGB and they matched much closer to the EPS version.
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So if I just leave the Document Color Mode as CMYK, leaving with the logo set in it's specific Pantone colors, and then Export/PNG, that will covert my CMYK colors to RGB for me. Seems almost too easy. Just go File/Export/PNG, but okay.
And while that may give me a better perceptual match, here's the other side of the issue.
They've given me and their web company specific RGB values for their logo. These are based on the Pantone book, and likely different than the conversion Illustrator will do.
The idea being, they want the website and logo to be the exact same blue. And they are based on the values they gave, but they look different than the original Pantone. Brighter and more vibrant. I'm dealing with another member of the client team, trying to use Illustrator on her end for smaller tasks, and she wants to know why the rgb PNG logo (which I entered in manual values for based on the Pantone book), is so different than the Pantone eps file. In the past, when I just exported as a straight PNG without tinkering, the perceptual match was there. Now it isn't. How can I explain this?

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what can i do for change CMYK file for RGB file, in Photoshop?
I have to upload BEHANCE.. so please teach me, hurry.

In Photoshop, you just change the image mode in the Image > Mode menu. Pretty basic stuff. You might want to spend some time reading some manuals to get the most of all the money you're paying.

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Having a bit of trouble as Illustrator CS6 (that I've set to a default color mode of CMYK) is opening CS5 CMYK files as RGB color profile. I don't get a choice. And so it is messing with my color palettes when I convert back to a CMYK color profile.
Can anyone help? I can't find any answers when I search.
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You can not set a default color mode to make Illustrator open all files in a certain color mode. A file opens in the mode it was saved.
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Does anyone know how to change the Photoshop CS5 defaults for opening files?
When I open a PDF, the default setting in the import box is CMYK, 300 dpi. When I open an Illustrator eps, it defaults to CMYK, 72 dpi.
I need to do a lot of batch/droplet work and since those keep doing really wonky things - or don't run at all - I need to be able to drag open bunches of files at a time and run actions manually. For the moment.
It would be great if there was a way I could change the settings so that each Illustrator file defaulted to open at 300 dpi/RGB.
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Sue,
It may be time for the list, then. Presumably, you have been through 1) - 2), and I believe it is better to start with 4) and go straight to 6) if needed.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file, and when it is not caused by issues with opening a file from external media, see below. You may have tried/done some of them already; 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
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1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
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6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html
External media: It is always recommended here to open/save from/to own hard disk, and to copy from/to networks and removable media. You may be lucky (for a while), but the chances of file corruption and other unpleasantnesses are immensely greater when you use anything but the harddisk, and it is better to be safe than sorry.
In addition to the (far greater) risk of file corruption, some issues are mentioned here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/illustrator-support-networks-removable-media.html

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No I am not selecting the registration swatch. No, no scripts used to create a new doc. And either setup from CMYK or Print to create a new document has the default black swatch as a mix of cmyk and not pure 100k only. I am talking about the "Default" colour swatch called "black". Second from registration colour. When I create a new doc, and have the blank page I click on the "colour" pallette and click the stroke to bring it to the front (with the white fill) and it displays the colour as a black mixed in fractions of cmyk- completely useless! It has been a pain for us as text and borders etc needs to be set only in black and not a mix. Why has adobe done this is beyond me. Annoying to say the least. Perhaps its because we here use a international version and not one for the States?? Its the only straw we can clutch to.....and it happens on all 4 macs here! never on any previous versions of Illustrator either. We do not do any work in RGB so its not set in the wrong colour mode. I have been using Illustrator for at least 5 years so am no raw beginner.:) Thanks for your suggestions but they seemingly do not apply in this case. At wits end now, we are considering scrapping it and going back to earlier versions. aaargh, another "update" that makes things worse...

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