Does your latest Pshop have this issue with clipboard losing colour strength ?

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Latest Photoshop.open the attached file in working space Adobe RGB 1998 (the choice for many photographers and others working with accurate colours and a wide colour gamut recreating colours of nature and photoshoots)hit printscreen buttonGo file new and choose colour profile ‘working RGB AdobeRGB1998’. Color mode for me is always RGB colour and 8 bit. and that lot always works, or has done for decades. Monitor (color calibrated Eizo) is set to 80 candelas Adobe RGB 1998, Camera AdobeRGB1998, scanner ditto.Paste and upload here the result.If all is correct (as per CS6, and Pshop 2024) it will look like the source image.If you have the Pshop 27 bug, it will have become something akin to sRGB, duller, earthy, lacking saturation etc.now repeat and this time use Colour profile ‘Dont Color manage’ and what’s it like ?here is the source file. Adobe say they can’t replicate the problem so cannot fix it. A friend has it dull down for both Adobe RGB and also ‘Dont colour manage’, double trouble, whilst I have it dull down for just Adobe RGB. A techie did it and all was good.I have been unable to use Pshop since January as copy paste is a big part of my workflow. Still awaiting a fix 7 months later.So hence the survey, how is it for others ?I will download your uploaded files and report back.Merlin

D Fosse · Answer

This one’s easy: “hit printscreen” is the smoking gun.

That’s a screenshot, and with screenshots, you need to first Assign the monitor profile, then Convert to the original document profile. Then they will match, both in color and in numbers.

If you don’t do this, they won’t match. A screenshot is untagged, but the numbers have already been converted into monitor color space. The original color space doesn’t apply.

And then one more thing: Set color management policies to “Preserve Embedded Profiles”, and don’t change it again, ever. That’s how color management is supposed to work.

With that setting, the embedded profile will always override the working space. Again, that’s how it’s supposed to work. Forget about the working space. It’s not important and it doesn’t matter. Just make sure the file has an embedded profile.

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