: Colors change when copying and pasting from image to new photoshop document I am trying to cut/copy a selection from a photo I took of a watercolor, but when i copy it (cmd-c and cmd-shift-c)

@Dunderdale640

I think the problem here is an issue of perception and light.

If you take a look at your original scan, the paper is not completely white. It is gray. So your colors are the watercolor on top of gray. When you then transfer to a completely white background, you can more clearly see the gray in the original.

Adjust the original scanned image (either re-scan or adjust the levels) until the background is actually white and try again. Your colors should be closer to how they look in the original paper.

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@Kaufman565

Unless you have a specific reason not to, you should work in RGB mode and convert all of your RGB images to the standard sRGB color space, and also make sure that Photoshop’s RGB color space is also set to sRGB, which I believe is the default. Then you can Paste from one image to the other while remaining in the same color space.

Color management is specifically about changing the way that colors appear onscreen to make them more accurate to their actual colors (not color values) on your specific display. So if you don’t understand color management you will likely get surprising results like this both on screen and when printing.

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@Cofer715

Make sure both documents are either in RGB or CMYK color mode. Check that via Main Menu > Image > Mode.

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