Colour issue in Photoshop! Need help ASAP as on deadline! Thank you!

[Adorable_Raindrop5F9A]

Hello everyone 

I'm trying to transfer a vector image I created in to a document in photoshop. 

The document in photoshop is now very large and is saving out as a .psb file. 

When I transfer the vector the colours go from a RGB brightness to a CMYK washed out look in the document. 

When making a new document the placing the vector file in again, it all looks as it should. Only in this .psb document I have issues. I've checked the doc is RGB mode so unsure of what is causing it. 

Any help would be great thank you. 

Dan

[Trevor.Dennis]

The most help I can give you right now is to tag @D Fosse who is a real expert with that sort of thing.  

Good luck

[Adorable_Raindrop5F9A]

Thanks Trevor @D Fosse is there a way you could help me please?

[D Fosse]

RGB is all well and good, but what is the document color profile? To me it sounds like your document is untagged and doesn't have a color profile at all.

Never work with untagged data.  It means the numbers are undefined and you get unpredictable changes like this. As long as there is a profile, it will be correctly treated regardless of what the profile is. It just needs to be there.

[Adorable_Raindrop5F9A]

Thank you for your response @D Fosse 

it say sdocument profile is sRGB

[D Fosse]

What about the other document? Where does it come from? Is the vector an .eps, which doesn't support color profiles?

[Adorable_Raindrop5F9A]

This is the fist time I've ever had this issue, the files are coming from Adoe Illustrator. Files I've created myself. When copying and paste them in to a new PS file they are perfect. It's just this current document that seems to be having issues with colour. Never had this issue previously. They look like CMYK images even though the doc is RGB and original vector files are RGB

[D Fosse]

The key is still the document profile. You need to keep track of the profile where the document comes from, and where it's going to. You need to make sure that the profile travels with the file, and is correctly converted when and if it needs to be.

So what is the profile in Illustrator? Is it embedded in the file from Illustrator? This teal color could well be out of gamut in sRGB and hence muted - but that depends on what color space it came from. Not knowing that, it's impossible to tell.

Your original screenshot is untagged. That means there's no way of knowing how it's supposed to look.

How are you pasting into Photoshop? Is it a smart object? In that case, the embedded smart object retains its original profile, but limited by the master file color space. The smallest of the two determines.

[Adorable_Raindrop5F9A]

I've never worked with document profiles before or had this kind of issue so unsure how to set up or rectify the things your asking. 

The files are copied and pasted in to photoshop direct from Illustrator and placed in as smart objects.

I really apprciate the help thank you. 

[D Fosse]

Then this is a good time to start. The thing is, you cannot avoid working with color management and icc profiles. It's always present and Photoshop's whole architecture revolves around it.

[Adorable_Raindrop5F9A]

How do I give it a profile to rectify the issue please?