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BenJiWhoever
BenJiWhoever
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July 23, 2020
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Same color, but desaturated in another document, help!

  • July 23, 2020
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Hi there guys! 

So...I saw dozens of similar topics, but none was as specific as this OR having a solution for this problem. So I'm currently coloring an illustration for work and I have a color palet on a different document that I need to use, so I pick the color from one tab, click on the other and draw. The colors on the second tab / document appear desaturated. Not grey, just desaturated. I checked everything. The mode is RGB 8 bit, color profile is sRGB IE, the color picker is set to Point Sample...everything I found as a fix is fine on my PS. So I started to think the problem is me, so I filled both tabs / documents with the same solid color and put them on top of each other for comparison (the original is smaller, minized tab) then made a screenshot and open the screenshot and as you can see, the right one is different. I cropped the screenshot so it's not showing the whole screen. I drew a line ON the screenshot, to show the colors are different, when they should be the same.

https://imgur.com/pfJROvo

Can you help me fix that?

EDIT: I tried the same thing in another software, no issue there 😞 

https://imgur.com/c0WIApz

 
 
 

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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July 23, 2020

They have different color profiles embedded, and/or one of them does not have a profile at all. Always keep track of your profiles.

 

A color profile is not "RGB", but sRGB, Adobe RGB etc.

 

Photoshop color settings are just defaults. The embedded profile will always override it.

 

Other applications without color management support just ignore all profiles.

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 23, 2020

    Yes Screen captures are in one color space the one you system uses. Document can have different color spaces. Photoshop is color manage and can convert colors between spaces.

    JJMack
      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      July 23, 2020

      ????

      JJMack
      BenJiWhoever
      BenJiWhoeverAuthor
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      July 23, 2020

      The screenshot is a tab in photoshop with another, minimized and resized tab on top of it, that were both filled with the same color. I did that so I can compare the colors. So I picked the color the the right and drew over to clearly see it's different. The screenshots itself is cropped to not show the whole screen, because it's not needed. The second screenshot is the same, but in another software. 

      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      July 23, 2020

      What screen shots the images you posted do not look like screen shots to me. Screen shots look more like this:

      JJMack
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