Re: Mac10.8 and photoshop icons flat
Hi Chris and thank you very much for your comments. I really appreciate them. This now makes sense to me. The Finder/OS is seeing the top row of my screen grab as untagged, thats why all icons preview the same, the numbers are still the same. As they say - only the names have been changed. When I select Get Info, Finder knows about the embedded profiles, and uses them for other functions, but it must be unwilling or unable to access that info for the Icon Preview, as you stated. The bottom row of my screen grab was converted so those numbers did change and whichever profile is now being assigned shows those changes. The Finder is still treating the document as untagged. Arrrgh! My theory, ah yes, my theory is that Dinosaurs are really small on one end, really large in the middle and really small again on the other end. This is my theory. (John Cleese, Monty Python) http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html Can you provide a directory path for the Metadata Cache or mention a utility that might reset the correct cache? When I search I have 4 directories/folders called Metadata - none of them relates to Photoshop or Icons. One relates to Cache but contains only Safari data. The closest one is System/Library/Metadata but the only thing in there is com.apple.finder.legacy.mdlabels Labels, but nothing about Icons. Thank you, David
What Chris said. Depends on whether or not there’s a preview already generated in the file, if so you’ll get that. If not, the Finder will generate one depending. When displayed, the Finder does a match from the embedded profile to the display’s profile. You can tell whether or not the file contains a thumbnail preview by looking at it in a Finder window, selecting the menu item View - Show View Options, then checking and unchecking "Show icon preview”. If the file’s icon looks like a preview and doesn’t change, that means it has an embedded preview. If it changes from showing a preview to showing an icon based on it’s file type, then it doesn’t contain a preview and the thumbnail you do see is generated by the Finder.
When displayed, the Finder does a match from the embedded profile to the display’s profile.
Except apparently for Finder’s icon view (cmd 1) icon. Column and list view icons are matched to display profile, and column view preview is matched to display profile, but icon view icon doesn’t seem to be
On 3 Sep 2013, at 20:56, John Gnaegy <gnaegy@apple.com> wrote:
When displayed, the Finder does a match from the embedded profile to the display’s profile.
Except apparently for Finder’s icon view (cmd 1) icon. Column and list view icons are matched to display profile, and column view preview is matched to display profile, but icon view icon doesn’t seem to be
Exactly! The most important of the icon views is the one that isn't colour managed properly. It looks like the OS is converting to GenericRGB and then assigning the display profile -- that's the easy way to get a similarly wrong result in Photoshop. Did nobody at Apple ask themselves why the largest icons look *nothing* like the images they are built from (or the same image in the Get Info dialog)? -- Martin Orpen Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
Did nobody at Apple ask themselves why the largest icons look *nothing* like the images they are built from (or the same image in the Get Info dialog)?
Thanks Martin, I’ll write up a bug about that if you'll take it down a notch, how’s that sound?
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David Wollmann
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John Gnaegy
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Martin Orpen