color discrepancy on screen

Question

I'm pasting a screenshot of a jpg export from a PSD file, and below it, the same image imported into a PSD document which contains multiple images on a 24" x 6 ft. sheet of paper which I'll cut out and use in a mockup layout of a book. What I want to know is why the quality of the 2nd image is different from the first. The red and blue graffiti is duller and darker, as is the background of the panel. At least, this is how they appear on screen. Does it have anything to do with it's being imported into a file with a white background? I can't figure out what else it could be. Thanks.

D Fosse · Accepted Answer

Then you have at least one untagged file, that doesn't have an embedded color profile.

If both files have an embedded document profile, that profile will be converted in the paste, and the color appearance preserved.

(Actually the base issue is the same in either case: a missing document profile.)

D Fosse · Answer

A screenshot is in monitor color space, but untagged. It has already been converted into your monitor profile - but that profile is not embedded in the screenshot. The original color space of the document no longer applies.

The proper way to handle screenshots is to first assign your monitor profile, then convert to a standard color space.

Once the screenshot has a standard profile embedded, it can be copy/pasted in the normal way. The pasted image will always be converted into the base document color space and appearance preserved.

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