Photoshop CS "print screen" color shifting?

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Allen_W
Jan 5, 2004
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In Photoshop CS, when I press the "print screen" key to take a screenshot of a file, and paste that screenshot to a new document, the colors of the screenshot sometimes shift from the original document’s colors. This happens even when going from same color modes (RGB file to an RGB file, etc.). Is this a bug in CS? The previous versions of Photoshop didn’t have this problem. This problem is very inconvenient, since I usually do screenshots with the print screen key to e-mail samples to clients. Using the print screen key seems to be a very simple process so I don’t understand why this problem occurs. Please help!

BTW: I’m currently using "US Prepress Defaults" for my Photoshop color settings. I’ve tried "North America General Purpose Defaults," too–same problem.
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LenHewitt
Jan 5, 2004
Allen,

Using US Prepress Defaults, your RGB working space will be AdobeRGB(1998).

The screenshot will, however, be in monitor RGB, so you have a colour space mismatch. You would see less of a difference with your RGB working space set to sRGB. You need to convert the screenshot to AdobeRGB with your current set-up.
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Allen_W
Jan 5, 2004
I’ve tried "North America General Purpose Defaults," which gives me sRGB–same problem. I wonder why this is suddenly a problem in CS.
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Thomas_Madsen
Jan 5, 2004
I’ve tried "North America General Purpose Defaults," which gives me sRGB–same problem. I wonder why this is suddenly a problem in CS.

Same thing happens in Photoshop 6 and 7.
Your monitor profile doesn’t necessarily come even close to sRGB, so you’d probably be better off if you assign monitor-RGB to your screenshots and then convert them to the desired working space. That should give you an exact match of what you saw on your monitor when you took the screenshot. Remember that you can choose the right document space before you make the new document in Photoshop CS. Just click on the Advanced button in the New dialog box, and there you have it (Color Profile).

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Regards
Madsen.

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