Saturation and/or vibrance?

[Hyperexpression]

Okay I have 2 issues here: when I paste an image into a PSD, the pasted image turns out much more vibrant and/or saturated that what I wanted. Also, when I use the eyedropper tool on a different PSD, the color used to transfer to my other PSD file, but now it doesn't, and also when I enter in the numeric values on the color wheel in order to get it that way, it doesn't work either. I also reset my preferences and no dice. Can anyone help?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What are the Color Spaces of the copied and the receiving images? 

Please set the Status Bar to »Document Profile« and post meaningful screenshots. 

Try clicking the Eyedropper Tool within the image and then dragging it to the other image before releasing. 

[Stephen Marsh]

1st issue sounds like a classic case of colour management not being correctly configured. Can you paste a screenshot of your Colour Settings widnow? This is conjuction with your document colour profile found in the status bar or by looking at the assign or convert to profile commands will indicate the current source colour profile for a given image.

[D Fosse]

This is what happens when there is no embedded color profile. As long as there is a profile it will be correctly converted on paste.

Always embed the profile, no exceptions.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I guess it could also happen if someone set the Color Management Policies to »Off« and unchecked the warnings in the Color Settings. 

[D Fosse]

Actually it wouldn't, because then everything would be represented in the working space, and even if wrong, it would at least be consistently wrong.

This happens when one file has a profile, and the other doesn't.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Right you are!