psd file changes color when put in indesign document

Just to make sure: 

• What is the image’s Color Mode? 

• What is its Color Space and is the ICC profile emdedded? 

Hi,

Please take a look at the following article to resolve the color mismatch issues between Photoshop and InDesign: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/photoshop-assets-in-indesign.html

Hope it helps.

Thanks,

Mohit

It's the grayscale profile.

In Photoshop grayscale is fully color managed, but almost no other applications do that. InDesign doesn't either, it just treats grayscale as K-only in your working CMYK.

You need to prepare your Photoshop file accordingly. Set your working gray to Black Ink <CMYK profile>. You do this by clicking the rolldown for working gray, and "Load Gray". Then navigate to the CMYK profile you use.

Then go to Edit > Convert to Profile, and convert your grayscale file to this profile. Now you can place this in InDesign, and the appearance will be correct.

It looks like this:

Grayscale is generally a can of worms, precisely because it isn't color managed anywhere outside Photoshop. This means you need to use a grayscale profile that matches the destination.

The Photoshop default working gray, the dot gain profiles, are basically outdated and obsolete, and useless for any practical purpose. They are generic profiles for offset print, but the above method is much better and more accurate. "Dot Gain" refers to ink spread in the paper, but this is built into all CMYK profiles.

Go to Adobe Bridge. 

Edit/Color Settings. 

Change your color settings to the preferred specifications and click Apply All. 

There could be a mismatch between PS and ID.