PS image changes when dragged onto new PS document

[Elise Hamilton]

I am trying to create greeting cards using photoshop only. I find when I take a photoshop image and drag it onto a photoshop document the picture prints out much differently, loosing clarity and resolution and seemingly the printing is over saturated. What could be wrong?

I tried a new document. I am wondering if some color setting is effected. I took one pros advice and reset the preferences to default but it hasn't helped.

Do I need to calibrate my screen and every photoshop image and document to match. I know enough that all documents and images must have the same resolution which is 300 for my purposes.

I have asked many people and get a lot of different answers but no one seems to know why a photoshop image would change in some way when dragged onto a photo shop custom sized document.

If anyone can help I would be much obliged.

Damsel in distress..

[Lesa]

Howdy Elise!

We're so sorry to hear you're having such troubles! Can you give us a bit more information?

1. What resolution are you working with?
2. Does the resolution of the card template match that of the image you're dragging into it?
3. What colorspace are you working in?
4. Have you tried downloading a color profile specifically for the printer you're using?

[Elise Hamilton]

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Dear Lesa,

Thanks for the reply. I am indeed going nutty with
this problem and appreciate your insight.

The resolution on both template ate image are 300. I
don't know what
a color space is. I am a self taught user and learn as
I go so please forgive my technical short falls.

As far as matching the printer with a profile that
sounds great but I don't know what that entails
either.

My problem started with Indesign and I switched to
photoshop. In general, any photoshop image I take
seems to transform when dragged or placed into another
template, illustrator, photohshop and or Indesign.

Thanks again for your time,

elise

[Elise Hamilton]

Lesa,

I changed my color settings to adobe 98RGB as recommended by a college
graphics teacher. I got a good clear image by doing this but when I open up the document which is saved in PS and PSPDf I get a flag that says the embedded fonts don't match the working space. I had optioned in my preferences to convert mismatched fonts which resulted in my image being diluted a bit. so I changed my color setting preference to allow th embedded fonts to print as is, the embedded fonts being sRGBIEC61966-2.1

The working space is Adobe 98RGB. When I print it that way it seems to be OKay. I am wondering why the document that was created in my Adobe98 color setting would convert and become embedded as a sRGB document. I am very glad to have gotten it to behave this well but wonder if there is another setting I need to adjust to make everything compatible.

thanks
elise

[Lesa]

Hi Elise!

I'm glad you've gotten Photoshop to behave ;)

I'm honesty not sure on the embedded fonts thing, but I do know some folks I can ask. I'll post an answer here as soon as I get one.

Cheers!