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Re: Inconsistent Embedding of Color Profile in Photoshop CS
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Re: Inconsistent Embedding of Color Profile in Photoshop CS


  • Subject: Re: Inconsistent Embedding of Color Profile in Photoshop CS
  • From: stephan peterson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:48:28 -0600

Actually, I discovered something odd about how Photoshop handles the embedding of color profiles. It turns out that it all comes down to the color settings. Under "Color Management Policies" I was turning RGB to "Off" and unchecking the three "Ask" checkboxes. I wanted to insure that as I open the images I'm goiing to be converting I don't get stopped with dialog boxes. When I have Photoshop configured like this it doesn't embed a color profile. I found though that if I configure Photoshop so that RGB is set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles" and uncheck the three "Ask" checkboxes it will actually embed the profile. BTW, I'm using "as Photoshop format with options {embed color profile:true}". What's especially odd is that if I manually save a file and tell it to embed the color profile while RGB is set to "Off" it will embed the color profile, it's just if I try to do so programmatically that it doesn't work. Seems like a bug to me. I don't know if this behavior exists in CS2 or not.

Stephan

On Feb 21, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Rick Gordon wrote:

Whether the image is converted to any particular profile is immaterial to whether you do or don't want to have the profile embedded in the image.

For RGB images, you generally would want to have a profile embedded, so that anyone else handling the file will have (and hopefully use) the opportunity to have the same profile applied when the file is opened, as opposed to having to either 1) "not color manage", and implicitly apply their current working space, 2) explicitly apply their current working space, 3) guess what the real color space should be. (Some web specialists prefer not to embed a profile to save their puny 4K of space, but I strongly disagree with that approach.)

For CMYK images, the jury is more divided, weighing the same reasons as above against the possibility of some clueless printer doing an unwanted conversion.

At any rate, if the scripting interface for embedding the working space profile is not reliable, that is unfortunate.

Rick Gordon

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On 2/21/06 at 3:10 PM +1000, Brett Conlon wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Inconsistent Embedding of Color Profile in Photoshop CS":

This is the point I believe your chosen profile is physically and permanently adjusting the colours in your image, hence (if my understanding is correct) the image no longer needs the profile embedded when saving.

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