Colors change when copying to other file, or exporting as image

[Delightful_soldier98C6]

Hello all, ive been trying to figure this out for hours and couldnt find any solution.

I downloaded an ai. artwork file and wanted to crop that and use it on a second file im editing.

When I copy from the downloaded file to the second file, after I paste, the colors are totally different.

Even if I go to the artwork file and export as PNG or JPEG - when I try to paste that on the second file, colors are still changed.

Is there any solution to that?

please help 😞

thank you.

[Kurt Gold]

You may check if there is the same or a different document colour mode in both files.

Different colour profiles may also play a role.

[Mike_Gondek]

Check 2 things are the same between both documents

file >> document color mode  >> RGB

Edit >> Assign Profile 

If  this is vector paths and has global colors, they need to be defined the same in swatches for both documents.

[grafx]

I am having this same problem. I downloaded an eps vector from shutterstock and copied and pasted the image into another ai file. Both files are CMYK color mode but vector image's color changes appearance after being copied into another doc. What is going on here?

[Monika Gause]

Most probably different color profiles used and color settings set up inappropriately.

[grafx]

ah yes, I see that the color profile in the original file is set to "Japan Color 2002 Newspaper". Thank you for your reply.

[Monika Gause]

You're welcome.

You might need to try out what you now want to do. If colors get better when keeping the values or when doing the conversion. That depends on how you have set up color profiles in Illustrator. Japan Newspaper is a very different profile than the US or European offset ones.

[grafx]

I need US CMYK, so I will change the colors manually to reflect what I want. thanks again.