Screenshot has faded colors when pasted into Photoshop

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January 16, 2021
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Hello!

As the title says, when I take a screenshot and paste it into Photoshop, I get these messed up faded colors. See image below (left is what I get when I paste into Photoshop, right is what I get when pasted into MSPaint). I'm also attaching a screenshot with my picture settings (I tried fiddling around with the color profiles, but to no success).

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rob day

Community Expert

Rather than pasting the capture can you open it? On OSX screen captures are saved with the monitor profile assigned, so opening the capture maintains its appearance:

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buru95Author

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I tried opening it directly, same result. (I saved the screenshot in MSPaint as "screenshot.png", then opened it in Photoshop, colors are still faded). Keep in mind I am using Windows though, not MacOS, as previously mentioned.

D Fosse

Community Expert

With a screenshot, you first assign your monitor profile, then convert to the standard color space you want. Then they will match.

The numbers sent to screen have already been converted into monitor color space, but the monitor profile isn't embedded in Windows. That's why you need to assign it. In MacOS, the monitor profile is assigned to screenshots.

In both cases you need to next convert into the standard color space you want (sRGB, Adobe RGB etc). If you paste into an existing file that already has a profile, that conversion happens automatically.