Colors not matching between Photoshop and InDesign

[Ellie52]

Hello, would anyone please provide some insight into a problem I'm having?

I have Photoshop and InDesign CC both synced in color settings. Both are set to North America General Purpose 2. Opening an illustration in Photoshop, the colors look dull. Placing the same illustration into InDesign, the colors look too saturated. Here's a screenshot. Same illustration--top is in photoshop, bottom is in InDesign. I've tried importing both RBG and CMYK versions, and same thing happens. I don't recall this much of difference happening before, so not sure what's happened.

The monitor is calibrated with Xrite Color Munky.

Which colors do I trust will print correctly...the ones from photoshop, or the ones from InDesign? Thank you for any help....

[rob day]

I have Photoshop and InDesign CC both synced in color settings. Both are set to North America General Purpose 2

Sync'ing your Color Settings doesn't usually have any affect on existing documents, so you should check the color profile assignments of documents via Edit>Assign profiles... and make sure they match.

I can get a similar shift in color if I open an RGB document that has the sRGB profile embedded, save it without its profile and place it in an InDesign document with AdobeRGB as its profile assignment—again check Edit>Assign Profiles... and not Color Settings for the document profile.

Here you can see I'm showing Document Profile in the lower left corner info box, but I'm saving with Embed Color Profile unchecked.

Placing two versions of the file in an InDesign doc with AdobeRGB assigned as its RGB profile, one with sRGB embedded and the other with no profile embedded. The bottom version gets AdobeRGB assigned because it has no embedded profile:

[Ellie52]

Thanks for the detailed response--really appreciate it.

I tried to replicate that and don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I want to keep the colors as they show up in Photoshop. That image has an sRGB profile embedded, and I save the file as a TIFF with the profile embedded. But, placing into InDesign, the colors still shift to the saturated version. Here's my InDesign settings (applied before creating a new document, using "assign" to the existing document like you said). What am I getting wrong? thanks so much for your help.

[rob day]

Does the preview in InDesign change if you go to Edit> Assign Profiles.. and Assign sRGB?

[Ellie52]

No shift happens in InDesign preview when switching between sRGB and Adobe RGB.

A shift does happen in Photoshop...the original image is sRBG, and assigning Adobe RGB makes it more saturated.  But InDesign seems to be ignoring any changes to the color profiles. Do you know why this might be happening? (I'm on CC, Windows)

[rob day]

The preview shouldn’t be changing when the image has an embedded profile, but it sounds like InDesign is giving you the wrong preview. Can you try recalibrating your display. Something similar came up in the Photoshop forum the other day between Photoshop and Lightroom on Windows

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Also, maybe before you recalibrate, try a Save As to PSD to make sure it isn't a problem with the tiff.

Check to see if native colors are responding to document profile reassignments—a rectangle filled with an RGB color should respond to an Edit>Assign profiles... RGB profile assignment change. If the preview doesn't respond to a profile change, try deleting your InDesign caches, followed by deleting your prefs.

Troubleshooting 101: Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences [Locked]

Here the Photoshop thread, the OP is on Windows using Color Munki

Re: More color management fun

[Ellie52]

Thank you!!

[Mohit Goyal]

Hi,

Please take a look at the following article to resolve the color mismatch issues between Photoshop and InDesign: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/photoshop-assets-in-indesign.html

Hope it helps.

Thanks,

Mohit