Changing color profile of untagged pictures

How to change the estimated color profile of untagged pictures to sRGB/RGB, if color profile is Adobe RGB?
In this way, you could have the advantages of (sometimes) wider color range and accurate colors in general.

With an average monitor what you see on-screen is already soft proofed to sRGB (or something very close to it), because that's all the monitor is capable of displaying anyway. So soft proofing to sRGB won't tell you anything. You won't see any difference.
In Photoshop it sounds as if you assign profiles. That's not the way to do it. If you convert correctly you won't see any difference. Same principle as above: there may be clipping in the process, but what you see on screen is already clipped, so no visual on-screen difference.
With a wide gamut monitor soft proofing becomes slightly more useful. But still you won't see any changes occurring outside Adobe RGB. You'll get a better idea by keeping an eye on the histogram. Ideally, all three channels should taper gently off towards the endpoints. If any one or two channels are backed solidly up against the endpoint, on either side, that's gamut clipping.
If Blurb gave you a real profile, one that reflected their actual printing process, you could soft proof to that. But apparently they don't.

Similar Messages

How do I Batch change color profiles in CS4?

I need to change color profiles on hundreds of photos at a time. CS4 does not give me that option it seems, only lame options i'll never use

Probably easiest would be recording an Action of a conversion and running that with File – Scripts – Image Processor; Batch or Droplets are other ways of using an Action.
Scripting would be another option.
Which options exactly do You mean with »lame options«?

How to change color profile of exported photos in iPhoto

Hi
Please help. I want to change color profile of exported photos in iPhoto. The iPhoto in my macbook air with mac OS X Yosemite always exports photos in Adobe RGB 1998. How can I make it export photos in sRGB color profile?
Thanks

You can assign a color profile with Preview.

Changing color profile in Lightroom 5 Soft Proofing from ProPhotoRGB to sRGB is not showing any changes, changes in Photoshop CC are dramatic

I am working with the color profile ProPhoto RGB in both Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC. In preparing for my first Blurb book I have tried to generate pictures in sRGB in Lightroom, using the Soft Proofing feature, but there are no changes at all. Then I transfer the same pictures into Photoshop, change the color profiles and the results are dramatically different.
What can I do to achieve the same results in Lightroom

With an average monitor what you see on-screen is already soft proofed to sRGB (or something very close to it), because that's all the monitor is capable of displaying anyway. So soft proofing to sRGB won't tell you anything. You won't see any difference.
In Photoshop it sounds as if you assign profiles. That's not the way to do it. If you convert correctly you won't see any difference. Same principle as above: there may be clipping in the process, but what you see on screen is already clipped, so no visual on-screen difference.
With a wide gamut monitor soft proofing becomes slightly more useful. But still you won't see any changes occurring outside Adobe RGB. You'll get a better idea by keeping an eye on the histogram. Ideally, all three channels should taper gently off towards the endpoints. If any one or two channels are backed solidly up against the endpoint, on either side, that's gamut clipping.
If Blurb gave you a real profile, one that reflected their actual printing process, you could soft proof to that. But apparently they don't.

Mountain Lion change color profile when use discrete video card

MacBookPro mid 2010. Update Samsung SSD 830.
Mountain Lion 10.8.2 just installed (new installation).
Reset PRAM and SMC. Done. No result.
Try with GfxCardStatus. No result.
When the system uses the discrete video card changes the color profile.
I'm not the only one with this problem.
Someone managed to solve the problem (really)?
I DO NOT ACCEPT COMMENTS OR ANSWERS USELESS.
Sorry, but slightly altering after losing three hours in forums where no one ever answered ...
Thanks.
Stefano.

Let's see...
Sounds like you're running into an expected issue if you make an alias to removeable media. The same thing would happen if you made the alias to a folder on a DVD-R disc or CD-R. If you eject the original, you disable the alias.
If you copy the entire SD card volume to your drive, the PRIVATE package should copy across. Then, as a folder on your hard drive rather than a volume on removeable media, you could make an alias to the STREAM package for quicker access later.
I'm pretty sure that Handbrake, like Prmeiere Pro, can see the MTS files directly. That is, it's not dependant on the other folders in the PRIVATE directory sturcture. As such, you could copy the contents of the STREAM package to another folder on your drive. Just be mindful of the default MTS file names if you're using more than one SD card (you don't want to accidentally copy 00001.MTS from one card over 00001.MTS from another card).
As long as Handbrake sees MTS directly, you could even rename the MTS files after you've copied them.
On a side note, I almost always archive my SD cards with the data structure intact. More often than not, that file structure is important to corretly access the video stored within that structure. If something unexpected happens while working with the MTS files, it is good to have the original file structure to go back to. Although, SD cards are getting to be so low cost that sometimes I just label the SD card and store it for archiving.
-Warren

White is still Yellow in all Adobe programs - Changing color profile did not work!

I followed some other threads, and their advice was to change the color profiles. I did that, I am running on windows 8.1 and in photoshop, indesign and illustrator my whites are still yellow.

Have you got the correct colour profile installed for your hardware? or even try turning colour management off to see if that fixes the problem

Changing Color Profiles

I saved in Preview a business card that I created in Adobe Photoshop Elements. There is an online service called VistaPrint; I uploaded my file, and the colors that were actually printed on the business cards were quite dull It was a tiff with rgb. I called the company to complain and was told they would reprint them for me and to save the file as jpg with cmyk. Using ColorSync, I did that, but the cmyk file was dull. Any suggestions as to rgb vs. cmyk?

All you need to do is copy the ones you want to use into a Profiles folder. The one in your user account, or the main Library folder. Doesn't matter which.
To get to your home Library folder, click on the desktop so the Finder is the foreground app. Hold down the Option key and choose Go > Library from the menu bar. This will open the Library folder in your user account. Within that, you'll find the folder path ColorSync > Profiles, which you've already found. Put the .icc profiles in that Profiles folder.
If you have more than one user account on your Mac and want all users to have access to those profiles, then go to the main Library folder. Double click the icon of your startup drive (assuming you have your drives showing on the desktop), and then open the /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ folder. Copy the .icc files into the Profiles folder. Since this is the common Library folder rather than the one in your user account, it's protected against any ol' person copying files into it. It will ask for your admin password before allowing the profiles to copy into that folder.
They should then show up in your apps.

Picture color profile

Hi, I have a question and hopefully somebody can help me.
In Photoshop I'm able to change the piture profile from RGB to sRGB and in Aperture I don't know how.
Changing the profile, alouded me to print my pictures with Pthotoshop without a color cast, problem that I'm still having with Aperture.
In a Adobe Forum I was told that due to the fact that my printer is not working with RGB I change the profile to my pictures from RGB to sRGB, as well to select on my printer options that the color is sRGB and on Photoshop to choose that the printer manages the colors.
Is there any solution in Aperture, I'm getting a yellow color cast and I don't find any solution. Please help needed!!

The issue with the picture profile is not about exporting is about importing to Aperture.
About changing the profile from RGB to sRGB, thank you for the advice, I think that the one who gave me the advice also wasn't so sure, anyway it worked but I think because now in Photoshop the printer is managing the colors, issue that I don't think is so convenient.
- HP Photosmart C5180
- iMac OS X 10.5.4 with monitor calibrated with Spyder 3 Pro
- Paper I have used several from HP and all of them shown a yellow cast when selecting the paper (HP Premium Plus, HP Advance Phot Paper, etc.)
- Aperture 2.1.1
In print dialog the settings are:
- printer: HP Photosmart C5180
- print settings from HP (aperture manual p. 486)
* paper type : choose the type of paper I'm using, ie HP Premium Plus
* quality: best
* color: sRGB (I've also choosen Application Managed Colors but the result is the same)
-color sync profile: System Managed however (I've also choosen the type of paper I'm using and the color cast appears)
on this last setting, when I choose system managed colors, the pictures area really dark and with a color cast and even I move the gamma value between 1.15 and 1.2 the result is still bad.
Many thanks!

Color Profile untagged

Hi
I am running CS5 on a Windows 7 machine.
I have a colour managed system and my settings throughout Creative Suite are synchronised. However when selecting my InDesign file thumbnail in Bridge the metadata says the color profile is untagged. How can this be possible when I have assigned a color profile to the document?
Can anyone help and tell me how to tag my InDesign documents in the correct way. I am also having the same issues with pdf files which are generally created from InDesign with a color intent specified.
I hope I have posted this in the correct place as I was unsure whether it should be under Adobe Bridge.
I appreciate any help and guidance you can give me on this.

Thanks Peter and Rob
This has answered my question, particularly for InDesign files I will just ignore it, but it would be help if Bridge could somehow acknowledge it does have colour profiles assigned as this is misleading.
Also regarding the PDF's I create I always convert all images to CMYK and list an intent profile, surely this should then have the CMYK profile tagged?

Bridge Filter Tab - Color Profile

I have an iMac (Mountain Lion OS X
10.8.4) Nikon NX2, Nikon
D800E camera, and Photoshop CS6.
Most of the 100 or so photos I
have transferred to my Mac by (USB and
also card) are RAW NEF at approx. 40MB a file. (Lossless compression) Most all of these pictures are in Color Space Adobe RGB, because that is
what I set up on the camera.
When in Bridge > Filter Tab > Color Profile > [this says that the majority of the NEF
photos , in the camera’s Color Profile Space of Adobe RGB, are not in this
color space, but the color profile of “UNTAGGED!” I’ve studied all the preferences and options of
Bridge and I am not 100% that I know what to change so these photos will show
in the color space I want them to and I don’t want to make a mistake by
clicking something that I can’t undo so…
How do I
get these photos (which I guess are showing up in Bridge as sRGB color space)
to show up in Adobe RGB. And if I can
change this, what could be the good or bad consequences of changing to Adobe
RBG?
There is
also a Thumbnail Option – “Generate 100%
previews. Will checking this show the previews at 100%? And what consequences does using this have?
Thank You Very Much For Your Help,
Thank You,
Sandy

I looked at my canon raw files and they also say untagged. So Apparently the color profile does not get saved in the side car file. Which maybe a good thing. The raw file is suppose to be your negative, in that it doesn't need any color profile until you do something with it in another file format that does support color profiles.
The generate previews will use up more drive space to speed up previewing them. But in general, I never really needed it. So it boils down to what type of system do you have, ex. plenty of drive space, speed of cpu, amount of ram, etc.

ColorSync and color profile stuck in sepia tone!

This is a detailed post explaining my problem and everything I've tried. Please help me!
My 1-year-old likes to jam on the keyboard of my iMac G4 (he's a regular mac lover, he is), and as such sometimes messes things up. I never thought he could do any damage to the OS that I couldn't fix, and I have the restore set. Now he's messed it up and I DON'T have the restore set.
Model: iMac G4 800mhz w/ upgraded memory and OS X 10.4.7.
Basically my screen is displaying in nothing but sepia tones. The desktop environment, applications, video, 3D apps...everything. Here is the list of things I attempted that have not worked thus far:
1. Tried changing the filters settings in ColorSync Utility. No filters were set.
2. Tried changing color profiles in Displays, only made slight changes to the same sepia tones (contrast and whatnot)
3. Used First Aid to Verify and Repair my profiles. No problems detected. Still sepia.
4. Tried to create a Calibrated Generic RGB profile without using Expert Mode, to no avail.
I have no idea how to tweak individual RGB settings, especially with no plain RGB shades to work with. Please explain this to me as if I were a 3rd grader...I know that if my baby was able to change this in a few seconds, it's got to be something really simple or else he's an evil mastermind. I'm just missing it somewhere. Help me!

Check System Preferences>Universal Access>Seeing to see if any options are turned on that shouldn't be. Some of them can be easily turned on with keyboard shortcuts.

How do I embed a color profile in an untagged picture that is displayed incorrectly as sRGB?

I have a set of JPEGs that have been stripped of their color profiles (AdobeRGB). Lightroom assumes that they are sRGB images and displays them incorrectly. Is there any function in the program that will let me embed the correct (AdobeRGB) profile to the photos, preferably without re-compressing them?

It looks like the developer of ExifTools GUI is no longer supporting it:
http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=5370.0
I tried using an older ExifTools Gui v3.38 with the latest ExifTools v9.47 windows installer download and it works fine. It also does NOT recompress the image data when using the 'Import ICC/ICM Profile' tools. So there's no need to create TIFFs to change the profile on your JPEGs without altering the image data. Try it!
I've uploaded a ZIP file, which contains a folder with everything you need. Download, unzip, and place the folder anywhere on your HDD. Copy and paste the shortcut 'ExifToolGUI 3.38 (ExifTools 9.47)' that's in the folder to your desktop. Nothing is installed – Exif GUI is a standalone app. If it doesn't open you may need to right-click on the shortcut and selct 'Run As Administrator.'
https://www.hightail.com/download/elNLb3BOQ1JTSUFsYzhUQw
Message was edited by: trshaner Corrected download link

Can anyone tell me why a picture would change color when I try to download/upload it? It is the exact same picture- chosen the same way and when it goes to any other program it changes the color (I've tried canvas on demand and mpixpro. I've also tried

Can anyone tell me why this picture changes color when I try to download/upload it? It is the exact same picture I have taken from the same location. The image on the left is via preview and the image on the right is what is shows like when I try to download it. I have emailed it to myself and it shows fine on the computer and in CS4, but when I look at the download via my phone or on another computer it shows the wonky color on the right. I have checked the color space shows RGB/8 bit. Any ideas why or how to fix it? It isn't with any one specific session.... and I've tried it on both my desktop and my laptop- saved image to an external hard drive and to drop box. I've tried sending the image to canvas on demand, my email, mpxipro, POST editing- all the same result. Please HELP!! What am I doing wrong?

Most of the time you see something like that. The image in question has a color profile other then sRGB. Some image viewers/displayers are color managed and others are not. So the image do not look the same in all of the applications you use. So colors seem to change.
Try converting it to sRGB color and see if then looks the same all around. Also I think PC and Mac displays are set to different gamma something like 1.8 and 2.2
Though I'm colorblind I even see color variations.

Picture color profile in Lightroom vs Photoshop CS2 editing

Hi all, I hope someone can solve this for me.
When I'm viewing picture in Light room, all my pictures are a bit warmer ( have a yellowish tint to them ) compared to when I view them in Photoshop CS2. The same is true if I view them in other programs. This is true for all my picture file type (jpg, tif or raw). I get the feeling that it's Light room that in the wrong in how it displays the picture and not the other programs. Using the warms tool to make the picture a bit colder, only adds a bluish tint to the image which isn't even close to what it looks like (unedited) in Photoshop.
I get the feeling that Lightroom does something to the picture, or uses some sort of color profile, driver that other programs don't use.
Is there a way of changing this?

>When I purchase these ADOBE products I expect them to JUST WORK!!!!!
Unfortunately, when Microsoft, Dell and others enter the fray it's no longer up to just the Adobe folks. Differences between Photoshop and Lightroom are almost always due to a corrupt monitor profile. Adobe has nothing to do with that.
>I dont wanna have to be worried about corrupt profiles yada yada yada!!!
I just want to be able to do my color correction and exposure corrections in Lightroom export as a High Res Jpeg and then do the remainder of my work in Photoshop and have them both look the same.
If your screen is correctly calibrated that will be the case. Unfortunately if you want to do color sensitive work on a computer with a typical monitor, you have to have a rudimentary understanding of profiles and color management. There is unfortunately no way around it. This is no different from traditional color photography where you have to understand what different film, different filters and different development do to your colors. The terminology is just different.
>How do I fix this and please go through it STEP BY STEP BY STEP!!!!
I am not one for the computer lingo....
OK. I'll assume first that you have no hardware calibrator and that you are on windows:
1. Make sure your Photoshop color settings are set up to respect embedded profiles. See the
first screenshot in this post(ignore everything else as it is no longer relevant in LR 2).
2. Open your monitor's properties panel, click on advanced and go to the color management tab. Delete any profile you see there. This is the culprit. Probably a bad profile got installed in some driver update for your graphics card or your monitor.
3. Restart Lightroom and Photoshop and that's it! You'll have corresponding colors. You are however, cheating yourself as your monitor is completely uncalibrated. This is how 99% of computer users run their monitors.
So here is what you should be doing if you care about your color and matching to print and making sure that others see the same colors. Even though hardly anybody calibrates, the only way to get a good average correspondence is to calibrate your monitor and use color managed apps. This sequence is valid for both macs and PCs
1. Do as above step one and make sure Photoshop is set up correctly and then go out and buy a hardware calibrator (or order online). They can be had for <$100 for pretty good ones. Look for example for Spyder2 and Huey Pro.
2. Calibrate your screen following the instructions from the software
3. Restart Lightroom and Photoshop. Now you'll have identical but correct color.
If you have a mac, you can cheat slightly and use http://www.computer-darkroom.com/colorsync-display/colorsync_1.htm instead of hardware calibration. You cannot expect very good correspondence between monitor and prints though with that method.

Pictures color profile

Do I need to enclose a color profile (Adobe RGB or Srgb) with the pix I use in a photobook I want to order. Normally my pictures are shot in Adobe RGB (with Nikon D2X), but when I go to the processing lab I enclose a Srgb profile for better printing results (on Fuji Premium Digital colorprint paper).
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

keizer:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Apple has indicated that they use the sRGB color profile for books, prints, etc. So you'll have to change the embedded profile to sRGB before ordering the book. To batch change them you can download the use the Automator application "Embed sRGB Profile" that I created. To embed the profile into all of your library's original files just drag the Originals folder from you iPhoto Library onto the application on the Desktop and it will automatically do it's thing. If you want to just embed in the book's photos, the best way would be to move all of them into a new roll and then drag that roll's folder from the Originals folder onto the application. You can download it from Toad's Cellar.
Another way is to setup iPhoto to use the Embed sRGB Profile application as the "editor" of choice in iPhoto's General preferences section under the "Edit photo" menu. Then you double click on a photo in the book to bring up the slider. Then double click again and it will open with the application and quickly close. It's hardly noticeable. Once you've changed the photos in the book you can reset the preferences to what they were previously.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Changing color profile of untagged pictures

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for