Each color-managed project item (maps, scenes, layouts, reports, and styles) in ArcGIS Pro has a color model and two color profiles associated with it. You set the color model and the color profiles from the Properties dialog box for each item. The default color model and profiles are derived from the color management settings of the application.
Color model
The color model, either RGB or CMYK, is like the color language of the item and dictates the way colors are defined and stored within the project item. The default color model for new project items is dictated by the ArcGIS Pro color management application settings. You can change the color model for a project item as necessary.
Color profiles
Each project item has two color profiles, one for the RGB color model and one for the CMYK color model. The color profiles are like the translators used to make sure the color values in one item or device can be understood by the color values in another item or device. Color profiles are used when a color is drawn on a monitor, moved from one item to another (a symbol taken from a style and placed in a map, for example), or exported to a color-managed file such as PDF.
Change the color management settings on a map, scene, or layout
The default color model and color profiles of project items is set by the ArcGIS Pro application settings, but you change them as necessary. To do so, follow these steps:
- On the Properties dialog box for the project item, click the Color Management tab.
- Set the Color model to RGB or CMYK.
- Choose Color profiles for RGB and CMYK from the menus.
The available color profiles include the following:
- sRGB IEC61966-2-1 noBPC
- U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
- Any color profiles stored in the Windows operating system
To add more color profiles to Windows, open the Control Panel and search for Color Management. On the Color Management dialog box, on the Color Profiles tab, click Add.
Change the color management settings on a style
The default color model and color profiles of styles is set by the ArcGIS Pro application settings, but you change them as necessary if the style is editable. To do so, follow these steps:
- Make a catalog view active. If a catalog view is not open in your project, on the View tab, in the Windows group, click Catalog View
. - In the Contents pane, click Styles.
The catalog view lists tiles of all the project styles, and under the Manage tab, the Styles tab appears.
- Click a style
in the catalog view. - In the Details panel, click the Description tab.
- On the Properties dialog box for the project item, click the Color Management tab.
- Set the Color model to RGB or CMYK.
- Choose Color profiles for RGB and CMYK from the menus.
The available color profiles include the following:
- sRGB IEC61966-2-1 noBPC
- U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
- Any color profiles stored in the Windows operating system
To add more color profiles to Windows, open the Control Panel and search for Color Management. On the Color Management dialog box, on the Color Profiles tab, click Add.