Colour Management. RGB image showing incorrectly when placed in Indesign

[baketea]

When I place one of by images with an RGB profile from Ps into Indesign, it shows the colours as if it has been converetd to CMYK (though the thumbnail under 'pages" dispays the correct colours). It's the only image out of 12 that's doing this. The rest are dispayed to match the RGB colours even though the Indesign transparency blend is set to CMYK (intention is print).

I haven't changed any of the colour settings in Indesign since I don't have this problem with the colour conversion of any other images. 

The image I'm having an issue with previously showed as RGB 8 * in Ps. I manually asigned the same colour profile as my working space and the * went away. So now that image is showing the same colour profile as all of my other RGB images, but it's still converting incorrectly. Please help! 

[Mike Witherell]

My opinion:

1. Go to PS edit Color Settings

2.Set RGB to Adobe RGB 1998 and CMYK to whatever is most like your printing press (I prefer GraCol 2006)

3. Set all color management policies to Convert, so that by the time you save that image in PS (before placing into ID) the photo will have the correct *house rules* icc color profile.

4. Underneath that I turn off all the ASK ME switches, because I don't like them to popup and slow me down.

5. Leave the rest of the settings the same as default when you arrived into this dialog box. 

6. Save these Color Settings into a Color Settings File (.csf). OK and OK and quit PS.

1. Now advance to Adobe Bridge > edit > Color Settings and choose the same custom-named .csf file, OK.

2. Clicking it and clicking OK causes it to go forth and adjust (synchronise) ID, AI, and Acrobat to match the same color *house rules* that PS has dictated.

1. Now restart InDesign and choose edit > Color Settings just to make sure the settings were received and made to be cooperating with the PS says to do it.

2. If you place RGB pictures into ID, did you also click on Edit > Transparency Blend Space and choose to be RGB like the pictures? Or CMYK if you are placing CMYK pictures. I prefer to keep color model consistent between ID doc and placed pictures in the ID doc.

I prefer to work all-RGB and allow the Export to PDF to do the color managed translation to the final colorspace; be that RGB for online use, or CMYK for prepress use. By choose the colorspace destination, you allow the Adobe Color Engine to do all the translation to final colorspace on-the-fly as it makes the PDF.

[rob day]

It's the only image out of 12 that's doing this. The rest are dispayed to match the RGB colours even though the Indesign transparency blend is set to CMYK (intention is print).

If the document’s Transparency Blend Space is set to CMYK all of the color on a spread will preview as document CMYK if there is any transparent object, native or placed, on the spread. You can use the Flattener Preview panel to find transparency on a page or spread.

Also, your RGB Policy is set to Off so a document created with the settings in your capture will have no RGB profile assigned, and any placed RGB images will have their embedded profiles ignored. The fall back RGB profile assignment for the document and its placed images will be the Color Settings’s RGB Working Space.