when I paste an image into my PD document it is very pale

[bla5674576]

I've had this issue for a while now whereby if I paste an image into my photoshop document, it has a very weak/pale gamma. If I paste it to a new document it's fine. If I cope merged layers and paste to a new doc, and then paste my image it's fine, but if I paste the image (say, from google images) into the original PSD document, it's then that it's very pale.

Likely something to do with the document's source color formatting or some such. But I'm not familiar with such things.

[lambiloon]

Hi you do such thing please make sure your color mode is rgb hope it helps you.....Regards

[bla5674576]

yes it's RGB. (oops, sorry it sent twice)

[bla5674576]

yes it's RGB. That was the first thing I checked.

[bla5674576 · Accepted solution]

It's a gamma issue from the Cinema4d render. So it's not quite a Photoshop issue. I made a new fresh document the exact same dimensions and dragged all the layers from the 'broken' (or incorrect gamma) PSD into it and things looked different, brighter, but also I could paste images into this new document as normal with the correct brightness.

So I think I need to figure out my gamma workflow in C4D.

[D Fosse]

This is what happens when you work without color management - when the source document does not have an embedded color profile. A color profile is sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto etc.

This is not a problem with Photoshop, it's a shortcoming in the other applications you're using.

Photoshop is fully color managed and the whole architecture is built around that. It needs to have a color profile to work with. If there is none, your best bet is to assign sRGB. This will have the least chance of being completely wrong. There will never be a perfect match, but it should be close enough.

In this situation you need to work systematically and avoid wrong and random profile assignments. Don't paste from random sources - make sure they are in the sRGB color space, have the sRGB profile embedded, and make sure your Photoshop document is in sRGB with the sRGB profile embedded.

If you need to change an existing profile, convert. If there is none, assign.

Don't change anything in Photoshop color settings! Leave everything at defaults. This is on document level.

[NB, colourmanagement net]

Hi,

an image taken from Google images is likely sRGB - (RGB imgaes have a colourspace, its needed to define the colour). If it's opened in Photoshop and sRGB is assigned it should look fine.

Maybe your PSD is Adobe RGB?

If to the google file should be opened, assign sRGB, then convert to Adobe RGB

Let us know how it goes?

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net

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