Losing color on import

hey guys, i'm pretty new to Indesign. When i import photos into indesign they seem to lose some color, colors are just less vibrant. I export to Adobe SRGB, what's up?

There are a few things that might be happening.
First, is your ID working space also set to sRGB? If not there may be a gamut re-mapping going on into a larger color space and how that is accomplished will depend on your color settings and policies in effect at the time of document creation.
Second, is there transparency or any effect that uses transparency on the page? If so, it's likely you have the transparency blend space set to document CMYK and and switching to RGB should brighten things up.
The whole area of color management, though, is very complex, and in order to geve good advice we really need a lot more information about what you are doing, your current settings, and what the intended output is going to be.

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