Sequence of events:Linked in new image for left-hand frame—“When You Feel Anxious” Linked in new image for right-hand frame—“When You Doubt Your Worth” Scrolled away Came back Left-hand image is “blued”Other notes of interest:These are, unfortunately, RGB AI-Generated PNGs provided by our client I updated to a CMYK TIF and was unable to replicate the issue This seems to ONLY happen with that one image/frame, not the others

FalconArt

Known Participant

Question

Image "blueing" upon linking other image? Has anyone ever seen this before?

Forum|Forum|1 day ago
August 6, 2026
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Sequence of events:

Linked in new image for left-hand frame—“When You Feel Anxious”
Linked in new image for right-hand frame—“When You Doubt Your Worth”
Scrolled away
Came back
Left-hand image is “blued”

Other notes of interest:

These are, unfortunately, RGB AI-Generated PNGs provided by our client
I updated to a CMYK TIF and was unable to replicate the issue
This seems to ONLY happen with that one image/frame, not the others

Image Blueing.mp4

J E L

Community Expert

@FalconArt that is strange, indeed. Can you attach that one CMYK TIF file so I can take a look at it and test it in a document? You might need to clear your InDesign cache, too. Save as a new document and relaunch everything. Open InDesign from the Creative Cloud desktop app, not from a shortcut; it might help if you didn’t try that already.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @FalconArt,

Sorry you're running into this issue, and thanks for sharing the screen recording. I tried reproducing the behavior on InDesign 21.4.1, but I wasn't able to replicate the blue tint on my end.

Could you please let us know if the blue tint is visible only in InDesign, or if it also appears in an exported PDF? Also, please check whether Overprint Preview or Proof Colors are enabled, and confirm whether Edit > Transparency Blend Space is set to RGB or CMYK. In the Links panel, could you compare the affected PNG with a working one and let us know if there are any differences in the color profile, color space, bit depth, or transparency/alpha channel?

If the issue only occurs with this specific PNG, could you please share the original PNG, the INDD file (or a simplified sample), and your exact InDesign version (Help > About InDesign)? That will help us investigate this further.

Abhishek

J E L

Community Expert

@Abhishek Rao, I understood @FalconArt converted the original AI-generated PNG files to CMYK TIFs. I always convert images to CMYK TIF for print applications before placing them in InDesign and have printed dozens and dozens of high-quality photo books without any problems. If the CMYK TIF file didn’t turn blue, then why use the PNG that does?

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