Can i change color mode in keynote?

Whenever I import pictures or logos to keynote, the colors turn out really skewed as from how they should look like.


COuld someone please tell me what might be wrong and how I can fix that? I have tried several differnt options when I export files from illustrator. Strange thing is, they llok perfect in Finder and Preview.


Panicing here. Thanks.

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 2, 2012 5:07 AM

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Sep 21, 2012 3:26 AM in response to mndrsvrl

I have just had the same issue. I am importing a logo I have created in Illustrator, which was done in RGB with specific values. The following methods all produced result that was different than the source…


-Copy/paste the logo from Illustrator with sRGB profile active in the document, and with no profile, with the same result.

-Placing the EPS directly was different again.

-Placing an AI file with embedded sRGB profile. No good either.


I also usually generate a PNG for client to use and when placing this into Keynote the colours were correct. The PNG was created in Illustrator with sRBG profile active. This worked for me, but I have seen other say it does not.


I've seen someone else claim changing the colour profile in Photoshop etc to the same one used by your screen will fix the shift, as Keynote supposedly uses the profile you have in system prefs. I tried this and it made no difference.


I assume the issue is colour profile conversion, but see no method that fixes it. Other than PNG.

Sep 24, 2012 8:27 AM in response to mndrsvrl

I've looked into this further and solved the issue for Illustrator to Keynote. The clue came from looking at the colour picker in Keynote, there is a tiny drop down colourspace selector in the sliders panel. It showed Generic RGB was currently selected. I tried changing this to Adobe RGB or sRGB but it seemed not to help. But when I changed Illustrator to generic RGB instead of sRGB the graphics copied and pasted into Keynote, or PDFs or AIs from Illustrator maintained the correct colour. So Keynote is using Generic RGB internally, and if it gets a graphic that has a different profile, or no profile (eg EPS) then it will convert the colour.

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