Coloured photos paste as black and white

When I copy or cut from a colour photo/document and paste into a new one, the result is in black and white. Anyone had this problem and how can I fix it?

Thanks, that set me on the right track. Greatly appreciated/

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Lindsey Henry

Lindsey,
First, look at the Channels in the B/W. Probably, you can use one of those as a Selection and then as a Layer Mask. If not perfect, then you can likely get close. If you need to, you might want to Blend more than one of those Channels.
If you have an issue "collecting" the Channels, just get your B/W into a separate Image, and then drag individual Channels back to your composite image, and use them, as is necessary.
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First time poster, long time lurker here.
I'm pasting a colored layer into a layer mask I created in order to texturize a shape I made. Whenever I Option + Click the layer mask and then paste the texture, it pastes in black and white instead of color, see screen capture below (pardon the watermark):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC8Da4V0FAc
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I am trying to colorise an old black and white photo, and I am unable to use any colours that are not black, white or grey for some reason. I select light blue to fill the sky, but it wont actually select it and stays grey. How do I fix this?
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I need to print a large amount of booklets, which have a colour cover but are grayscale on the inside. However, I am having trouble setting up my document to successfully do this and I am unsure if it is something I can change in InDesign or if it is something I should figure out with my printer driver?
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It integral that the printer knows that the inside pages of the booklet are black and white, as we get charged per copy for colour printing and it is vastly increasing our printing costs.
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@Eugene – do you have details for "Export as Grayscale"?
I tried with the following details:
Target-Profile: Dot Gain 15%
Convert to Target Profile
Include Target Profile
If I do it this way I get:
Target Profile not included
Wrong numbers for my colors
(I tested with a self-made color wedge on the page for the percentages of Black shown below)
Seen in Acrobat Pro 10 with proof simulation "Dot Gain 15%":
100 % Black => 100 %
80 % Black => 82 %
60 % Black => 63 %
40 % Black => 43 %
20 % Black => 22 %
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Seen in Acrobat Pro 10* with proof simulation "Dot Gain 15%" or any of the other available gray scale profiles.
(Acrobat Pro 11 might get this wrong due to a bug)
100 % Black => 100 %
80 % Black => 80 %
60 % Black => 60 %
40 % Black => 40 %
20 % Black => 20 %
This separated PDF (channel Black only) can now be converted with a self-made correction* in Acrobat Pro's Preflight Panel to a gray scale PDF/X-1a.
If done right * the color values stay as defined in inDesign.
Output in my case:
PDF/X-1a
OI: GrayScale profile Black ink of ISO Coated v2 300%
Tested with:
InDesign CC 2014.2
Distiller X
Acrobat Pro X
Mac OSX 10.7.5
Uwe
* There are several, convoluted steps necessary to get this (hope, I can remember them all):
Not optional:
Have a grayscale profile representing the channel Black of your intended output CMYK or generate one!
In my case the base CMYK profile was: ISO Coated v2 300%.
And I got a "Black Ink of ISO Coated v2 300%" profile for Grayscale conversions by generating this with my PhotoShop app.
Maybe optional, but helpful:
Change the color settings of Acrobat Pro X to use the color settings file you generated in PhotoShop where:
Grayscale is defined as the black channel of ISO Coated v2 300%: "Black Ink of ISO Coated v2 300%"
Mandatory, but somehow tricky:
Then on to the Preflight Panel of Acrobat Pro to generate a custom preflight profile.
None of the ordinary ones will fit exactly (at least in my Acrobat Pro X).
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2. Include a single correction for converting to Gray Scale (at this time, or if you do something like that the first time, it's not possible to change or duplicate that single correction)
3. Save your new profile. Close the profile.
4. Open the profile again.
5. Now, suddenly it's possible to duplicate that single correction (converting to Gray Scale).
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I have gone through a ton of colour ink just printing black and white documents. Its cost me a fortune and I've worked out that I can get it done cheaper by going to the print shop.
As far as I am concerned this unbelievable. A printer that doesn't give you the option to print using black ink only! And its not advertised or made known in any way. You have to buy the product and then find out later that it does not have a black and white print option. It seems there are a lot of people out there that are unhappy about this, and the "problem" seems to go quite far back. Why haven't Canon responded by adding this feature?! I wont say it here, but I think it must be obvious. Brings to mind the story of housecleaning product manufacturers that increase the size of the closures so that consumers will use more of the product, which is actually wasteful, so as to increase the purchase cycle.
This leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. I'm flogging mine now, and I am done with Canon for good!

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