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ALL images placed are faded

New Here ,
Mar 17, 2017 Mar 17, 2017

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Hello, i am A VERY new user to Indesign- not sure if I clicked something that is applying some sort of weird fade or washed-out effect to all the images I am placing onto my board, but everything looks dull- see images attached.

Here is what it looks likeScreen Shot 2017-03-17 at 2.19.29 PM.png

here is what that bottom image should look like

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New Here , Oct 16, 2018 Oct 16, 2018

I was having this problem too (hence finding this thread) I fixed my problem by right clicking on the image -> Graphics -> Image colour settings -> setting Profile to: Adobe Indesign default RGB and my Rendering intent to: Perceptual (images).

Everything now shows up in it's true colours from Bridge and PS without the faded grey/blue wash over them.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 17, 2017 Mar 17, 2017

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My bet is that you've got scrambled color reproduction settings -- either within InDesign itself, or if the images were manipulated with Photoshop, in the photos themselves. By my experience this generally results when images are set up for, say, newsprint reproduction but the job (and/or InDesign file) is prepped for magazine reproduction.

Do the colors print as washed out? Or do they just appear that way onscreen?

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Mar 18, 2017 Mar 18, 2017

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not sure if I clicked something that is applying some sort of weird fade or washed-out effect to all the images

It looks like you have applied some transparency amount or an Effect to the images or their frames. Open the Flattener Preview panel and choose Transparent Objects from the Highlight pop-up. That will highlight any transparencies applied to objects on the page and you can use the Effects panel to remove effects or change opacity.

If you were to inadvertently set the Effects Opacity setting to less than 100% with nothing selected, then all future rectangles you create would have that opacity setting applied. You could also have an Opacity change applied to a default Object Style.

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Mar 18, 2017 Mar 18, 2017

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It will help us analyse better if you click on one of these two images, grab a screenshot of your InDesign "Control Panel".

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New Here ,
Jun 24, 2017 Jun 24, 2017

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I am a very experienced InDesign user and am having this exact same problem all of the sudden. I have not accidentally applied any effects or anything. It will happen sometimes just from resizing an image. Can anyone help?

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 05, 2017 Oct 05, 2017

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I've used InDesign since it came out, and suddenly I am experiencing a similar problem as well. Often (but not always) when I update or place an image, it appears very faded. If the box has a fill, the fill color will come through as well. Transparancy is 100%, no effects were changed or added, the image suddenly just previews faded. If I select the image and select Display Performance --> High Quality Display, it snaps back to normal. If I turn on separations in the Separation Preview panel, the image snaps back to normal. But when I switch these settings back, the image appears faded again. The best workaround I have is to save and close the document, then when I re-open it, the images appear normal again.

This started happening when I upgraded from a 2013 iMac to a 2017 Retina 5K iMac. I thought it might have something to do with GPU settings or other display prefs but no matter what I change, this continues to happen. Seems like a bug.

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New Here ,
Sep 05, 2018 Sep 05, 2018

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Another experienced InDesign user here, I'm having this same problem.

Started a couple of weeks ago for me. Seems like a bug. Something to do with how the images are displayed. It usually happens after an image has been resized or cropped. But it seems completely random.

As Todd Shirley mentions, changing the display performance to 'high quality' for the affected image does fix it.

But it's not a long term solution because if all my images were displayed as 'high quality', InDesign would crash.

Adobe please fix this bug.

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Sep 05, 2018 Sep 05, 2018

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Can you share a sample page with the problem, via Dropbox or your CC account?

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Oct 16, 2018 Oct 16, 2018

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I was having this problem too (hence finding this thread) I fixed my problem by right clicking on the image -> Graphics -> Image colour settings -> setting Profile to: Adobe Indesign default RGB and my Rendering intent to: Perceptual (images).

Everything now shows up in it's true colours from Bridge and PS without the faded grey/blue wash over them.

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New Here ,
Dec 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018

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If anyone ever reads this again as I just had the same problem none of the above worked for me specifically (someone mentioned source files, but didnt specify the fix) but I did find a solution. What I realized is that my source files from Photoshop were in RGB. As soon as I converted them to CMYK all problems fixed. Graphics popped with full color when exported to PDF. I never work in photoshop RGB but something must have happened. Any way, hope someone finds this helpful!

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Dec 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018

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What I realized is that my source files from Photoshop were in RGB. As soon as I converted them to CMYK all problems fixed. Graphics popped with full color when exported to PDF.

Conversions from RGB to CMYK wouldn't increase the color range, usually the opposite happens when you convert into the smaller CMYK space. So something else was going on where replacing the original file solved the problem. Make sure there's no unintended transparency on the page. The Pages panel has a transparency icon, which tells you if any transparency exists on the spread.

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Dec 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018

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Conversions from RGB to CMYK wouldn't increase the color range, usually the opposite happens when you convert into the smaller CMYK space. So something else was going on where replacing the original file solved the problem.

I agree with Rob. My guess is that the RGB images were untagged and were therefore considered as deviceRGB in Acrobat and that the Acrobat colour settings had an inappropriate RGB default, whereas once converted to CMYK the profile was either embedded and not deviceCMYK or the converted space was the same/close enough to the CMYK working space for deviceCMYK.

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Nov 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019

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Hey everyone, 

I am having a similar problem and tried different things already. My Problem in detail: I am working on a document and have a coloured background on Page 1 on that background there is a png placed with a transparent background. Everything is fine with that. Now moving to page 2 I have a different coloured background and copied the png from page 1 to place it there as well. Now all of a sudden the background of page 2 turns dull. Even when I make the png unvisible the colour stays changed. So it can't be the file and the colourprofile, cause it works fine on page 1. I already exported the png again from photoshop, saved the file closed the program and restarted it.. nothing worked. The tip with image colour settings on right click did nothing for me either. I hope you guys can help me. this is the background on page 2 without the placed pngthis is the background on page 2 without the placed pngthis is the page i copy the png from and everything is fine herethis is the page i copy the png from and everything is fine herenow i placed it on page 2 and it becomes dullnow i placed it on page 2 and it becomes dullunvisible png layer on top but the colour remains wrong.unvisible png layer on top but the colour remains wrong.

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Nov 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019

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Try setting your Transparency Blend Space to RGB.

 

It wouldn’t matter if the transparent object is visible or not—if there’s any transparent object on the spread the chosen blend space is used for the spread’s preview.

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Nov 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019

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Genius !! Thank you so much it worked. I don't know what that setting is, and i never heard of it but I found it and now everything looks normal. I still don't understand why it did that though. At least theres a way to correct it now. Thank you again. 

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Nov 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019

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When a spread has an object with any transparency effect applied, the spead has to be flattened into a uniform color space for output. Just keep in mind that RGB color can be outside of a printer’s gamut—its color appearance is not always printable. If your document will be printed, it will still have to be brought into gamut—the RGB blend space will let you keep the RGB preview, but that doesn't mean the RGB color is printable.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 27, 2019 Nov 27, 2019

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All these are wrong, it's because the image is in a different colour mode

 

go to the original image file, on photoshop; Image > Mode > Change it to whatever your indesign colour mode is ..

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Jan 19, 2021 Jan 19, 2021

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A fix I found for this problem - once you select the box/frame you want to place a photo in, check to see what the Opacity for the box is. When I set up my files I set the opacity to 10%, so when photos are placed, they come in at 10%. If I change the opacity back to 100%, the photos come in at 100%

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 25, 2023 Apr 25, 2023

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I was having the same problem and what I found that solved it was I deleted all bounding boxes and my image, then placed the image again and recreated the box my image was "housed" in using the rectangle tool. Worked. I tried everything else basically and that one worked for me.

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Apr 25, 2023 Apr 25, 2023

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The original parent frame must have had some transparency effect applied—setting the Transparency Blend space to RGB would also prevent the CMYK preview.

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