I hope someone at Adobe will chime in. This is a very strange issue. The top image is what it looks like when placed. The bottom image is what it actually looks like. I happen to have a pale blue rectangle on the page, and that is showing through in the top photo where the yellow is supposed to be. In other words, the yellow area becomes transparent when placing into InDesign. I have tried saving the file in different formats, as RGB, as CMYK, nothing changes the strange outcome. I have many other placed images in that same InDesign file and they all place correctly.
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