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Souzie5FB7
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August 23, 2021
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Imported colour pdf documents turn black and white

  • August 23, 2021
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Hello

whenever I load colour pdf docs into photoshop to resize or crop, the original shows as black and white only. WHY?

How can I get them to remain in their orginal colour?

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Daniel KramerCommunity Expert
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March 12, 2024

Would be nice if the default would be color instead of the default being grayscale. Adobe please consider this change, it will be amazing. 

Chris 486
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Chris 486Community Expert
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June 3, 2024

Once you select a different option, it should be sticky and be remembered going forward. Hopefully that helps so you don't have to switch every time after you first change it.

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Andrew312702331knu
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January 22, 2024

When you import a PDF into Photoshop there is an option to open it in grayscale or RGB or CMYK. Reopen it and try to select a different color option.

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    mikec65402127
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    March 25, 2024

    Thank you for providing the simple quick answer we needed. We appreciate your help! Have a great day! 

    Stephen Marsh
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    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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    August 23, 2021

    PDF files can contain colours not supported in Photoshop. A sample PDF would be needed to specifically comment.

     

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    Souzie5FB7Author
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    August 24, 2021

    Hello Stephen, thanks for posting.

    here's a sample pdf I'm wanting to use, as attachment

    I want the red colour to remain once I've done some cropping in Photoshop.

     

     

    Stephen Marsh
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    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 24, 2021

    I used to be able to crop those screen shots turned pdf and they were not switching from colour to balck and white.

    Can you offer any way of undoing that colour change?


    If the screenshot of the PDF "is the original", then all you should need to do is ensure that when you open the PDF in Photoshop that the mode is set to RGB, or rather than rasterising the "page", you select the middle radio button for "image" to extract the image from the PDF, which is generally the better option if the PDF is just a wrapper for an image and not actual text/vector/image content.

     

     

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