Copy & paste linked image changes color.

[OHKO_53]

Hi Adobe,

I copied and pasted a linked Photoshop Image in InDesign. The color of the pasted Image changed.

What is going on?????

[rob day]

If an image has no embedded color profile it will fallback to the InDesign document’s assigned profile—Edit>Assign Profiles. With the image selected check the Link Info panel, which will show the image’s profile.

[OHKO_53]

Thanks. It is very strange to me and I have never seen this before (working with Indesign since 1996). The Image has a different color profile than the Indesign Dokument. (dokument is uncoated / image coated) So why is one image shown with the assigned profile? The same image changes after copy and paste within Indesign. That makes no sense and should not happen. 

[rob day]

So why is one image shown with the assigned profile? The same image changes after copy and paste within Indesign.

That would happen if the CMYK Policy for the source document was Preserve Embedded Profiles, and the Policy for the destination document was Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles). The Policies get saved with the document when it is created.

But, the behavior would be the same for JPEG or PSD. Is the PSD a layered file? Can you share it via Dropbox or your CC account?

[OHKO_53]

Thanks for the fast help 🙂

Ok, I updated InDesign this afternoon and now the psd and jpeg files behave identical.
I checked my CMYK Policy for InDesign for source document. It says „ignore embedded profile“. 

The placed image has the „ISO Coated “color profile.

The InDesign document has „Uncoated“ as assigned profile.

I copy/paste image within the same page of the InDesign document. The profile of the pasted image changed now to „Document CMYK“ as color profile.

Why is the same file within the document handeled differnet? Should the placed image not be changed into the „Document CMYK“ profile too if „ignore embedded profile“ is selected? 

I resolved the issue by changing the CMYK Policy to „keep profile“. Now the original and copied file look the same. 

[rob day]

I checked my CMYK Policy for InDesign for source document. It says „ignore embedded profile“.

The Policy listed in Color Settings wouldn’t necessarily represent an existing document’s policy. The document’s policy is saved with the document when it is created, or if you have Color Settings’ Profile Mismatches Ask When Opening checked and make a change from the warning dialog.

Cutting from and pasting to the same page shouldn’t affect whether an embedded profile is honored or not, so something isn’t right. But the Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) policy would always set a placed image’s profile to Document CMYK (the document’s assigned profile replaces an image’s embedded profile)

[OHKO_53]

Also, it only happens with a PSD file, not a jpeg. Some profile assigned (coated).

[Eugene Tyson]

Are you copying it on the same page/spread? Or to a different spread? Are you using any Transparency on the page it's being copied to. 

[Eugene Tyson]

Also don't copy and paste. 

Save the file to your hard drive.

In InDesign use File>Place and select the image that you saved.

[OHKO_53]

Really? Don't copy/paste within a document in Indesign? 

[Eugene Tyson]

Sorry - I thought you said you copied from Photoshop and pasted to InDesign.

[Laubender]

Hi OHKO_53,

what's your exact version of InDesign?

Hold the Ctrl key while you invoke About InDesign.

On a Mac the Cmd key. On a German Windows machine the Strg key

What's your operating system?

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )