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

Forum|Forum|23 days ago
July 7, 2026
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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 button

Go 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

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Merlin3Author

Inspiring

Can someone else try the simple test and let me and Adobe know the outcome.

I am stuck with version 24 now for 7 months.

Merlin

D Fosse

Community Expert

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.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

You are definitely on the right track I would say, but maybe making false assumptions. This user will probably be able to help you: @D Fosse He’ll respond when he sees he has been mentioned.

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Merlin3Author

Inspiring

Hi,

I have the same workflow with 2024 and CS6, and they are ok.

They are all set to same monitor profile, and color settings.

With Adobe Tech on the phone, we go through your post.

You need to first Assign the Monitor profile.

I have looked for monitor profile anyway and have the attached.

Its Adobe RGB 1998.

Then Convert to the original document profile.

Now if I have these Kodaks open in my workspace of AdobeRGB, and I hit the printscreen button, so far there is no conversion option, nothing kicks in to ask for a profile to copy them as, when hitting printscreen, then when I choose file>new, I can then choose colour profile.

I choose Colour profile Working RGB Adobe RGB (1998)

Now as the Monitor was also Adobe RGB 1998, that would seem to make sense. My workflow is AdobeRGB 1998 throughout.

I hit OK and then paste and get a dulled down colour set.

Now if I do the very same in Photoshop 2024 or in CS6 all is good.

Adobe rep said report back to thread with these facts.

So have I followed the steps ok ?

I just do these all the time in CS6 for many years, then in Pshop 2024, its only with 2027 its dulling down to sRGB. A friend did so and also got same problem.

Merlin

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