diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 63a5282b..76f559a6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning][].
 
 ### Fixed
 
--   Passing `rgb=None` to image model parser, leading to 3-4 channel images being interpreted as RGB(A)
+-   Passing `rgb=None` to image model parser for both visium and visiumhd, leading to 3-4 channel images being
+    interpreted as RGB(A)
 
 ## [0.1.4] - 2024-08-07
 
diff --git a/src/spatialdata_io/readers/visium_hd.py b/src/spatialdata_io/readers/visium_hd.py
index 68760fdf..efec22ef 100644
--- a/src/spatialdata_io/readers/visium_hd.py
+++ b/src/spatialdata_io/readers/visium_hd.py
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ def _load_image(
             # dask_image doesn't recognize .btf automatically and imageio v3 throws error due to pixel limit -> use imageio v2
             data = imread2(path, **imread_kwargs).squeeze().transpose(2, 0, 1)
         image = DataArray(data, dims=("c", "y", "x"))
-        parsed = Image2DModel.parse(image, scale_factors=scale_factors, **image_models_kwargs)
+        parsed = Image2DModel.parse(image, scale_factors=scale_factors, rgb=None, **image_models_kwargs)
         images[dataset_id + suffix] = parsed
     else:
         warnings.warn(f"File {path} does not exist, skipping it.", UserWarning, stacklevel=2)