Color Profile Selection Failure

First a quick description of my issue:
I brought my MBP with me on vacation and noticed the colors seemed to be off a bit. I went to Display and the moment I clicked the "Color" tab, the screen colors shifted for half a second, like it changed the profile, before reverting back to whatever profile it is on. When I select a different profile, it changes the colors and even the brightness to that of the new/correct profle (colors look good), but half a second later it reverts back.
I created a new admin account and the issue was still present. However, when I booted into safe mode, the issue went away and I was able to freely select color profiles (with my default account as well). The moment I disabled safe mode and rebooted, the issue returned.
I've tried deleting "com.apple.colorsync.profiles.###" with no luck. I've repaired permissions as well and run some Onyx cache flushes and such, but nothing works so far. I do have an external monitor back at home that uses a separate color profile, so maybe connecting and disconnecting it cuased some corruption at some point. I'm not sure. Right now I am more focus on this MBP's display.

No, profile do many things. It is a color space. It allows different apps and systems to view colors the same. Also fcp typically works in a tub color space not rgb.

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"FCP doesn't see color profiles..."
Not everyone believes that to be a true statement. In fact, when bringing an image from Photoshop into FCP you should first convert image to APPLE RGB. Of course, I don't expect you to believe me, so try it yourself. Bring in one image with just the regular Adobe RGB (1998) profile and the same image converted to Apple RGB. Set each frame for 10 seconds in length and render yourself a 20 second QT movie. Burn to disk and watch it on the TV, you'll see a definite difference. The Adobe RGB image will look "washed out" compared to the image with the Apple RGB profile.
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This whole area bugged the crap out of me until I uncovered a true gem stuffed inside a multimedia "how-two" guide written by Brian Storm, founder of MediaStorm and one of country's most sought after multimedia experts. (Disclaimer, Brian was a colleague of mine at MSNBC years ago.) Here's what Brian's "how-to guide" says:
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com.apple.systempreferences.plist
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I have given up trying to find the answer to this myself.
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That helps a little. It explains why "Display" is selected when I create a new from the clipboard in PS.
The ColorSync profile from a screenshot opened in the Preview App shows up as "Color LCD" in the inspector.
So, I assume what is happening in PS is that the new document is being created in the working color space and my clipboard contents don't match that and therefore causes the warning?
I could see getting a warning if I create a new document from the clipboard in PS and it embeds the "Display" profile within it, and then I try and paste something which has an sRGB (or other) embedded profile, but I was assuming the new document from the clipboard contents would have the same color profile as the clipboard contents.
I just don't get why I get a warning when I create the new document and the very first thing I try and do is paste the clipboard contents into said document.
However, when I select "sRGB" from the dropdown list instead of "Display" in the PS dialogue box it does not give me the mismatch warning.
Although the warning does say my source and destination document are both using the "Display" profile but my working space is sRGB.
The more I think about it, I may have just checked the "Don't show again" box in CS5 if I ever had the same issues and therefore never dealt with that again!
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Thanks for taking the time to explain some things!

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Welcome to the discussions, anthonysan.
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Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000024
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--> __PAGEZERO             0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [    4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
    VM_ALLOCATE            0000000000001000-0000000000055000 [ 336K] ---/--- SM=NUL
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9678ec6c color_space_create_adobe_rgb_1998 + 28
1   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9666dd70 CGColorSpaceCreateAdobeRGB1998 + 32
2   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9642b46b CGColorSpaceCreateWithName + 652
3   com.apple.geode                         0x01079d4a +[DGColorSpace initialize] + 1018
4   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90267600 _class_initialize + 305
5   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x902674c8 prepareForMethodLookup + 78
6   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90267337 lookUpMethod + 81
7   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x902672e1 _class_lookupMethodAndLoadCache3 + 47
8   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90266ac1 objc_msgSend + 81
9   com.apple.geode                         0x010798a0 +[DGContextMgr newBitmapContextCached:accelerated:] + 61
10 com.apple.geode                         0x0107985e +[DGContextMgr newBitmapContextWithAcceleration:] + 49
11 com.apple.RedRock                       0x02647bf6 -[Godot loadGeode] + 1261
12 com.apple.RedRock                       0x026448a8 -[Godot init] + 1571
13 com.apple.RedRock                       0x026437d2 +[Godot initGodotApp] + 108
14 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00083be8 0x55000 + 191464
15 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x0008236b 0x55000 + 185195
16 com.apple.Foundation                    0x9a3bc4cf __NSFireDelayedPerform + 413
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95ed1416 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 22
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95ed0db5 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 709
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb5bc2 __CFRunLoopRun + 1842
20 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb502a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378
21 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb4e9b CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
22 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052af5a RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 242
23 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052abf5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 162
24 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052ab44 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
25 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923c39aa _DPSNextEvent + 724
26 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923c31dc -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119
27 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923b963c -[NSApplication run] + 855
28 com.apple.AppKit                        0x9235c666 NSApplicationMain + 1053
29 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00064c99 0x55000 + 64665
30 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x000642e5 0x55000 + 62181
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Tom:
To help prevent loss like you experienced see the tip at the end of my signature.
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.
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Hi guys
I'm working with the DNG SDK in C++ for some time now. I need to be able to take a raw RGB (not camera raw) and convert it into a dng file. After playing arond with it for a few days, I realized creating the camera profile drastically affects the resulting dng image.
I can't seem to produce a dng file that was identical to the input source. My picture appears very washed out and I end up using the adobe color profiler to try to bring the image back close to it's original color.
I'm trying to find a way to produce dng files without the need to affect the colors in any way, the resulting picture should be bit identical to that of the raw RGB input file.
I'm not even sure if I can do this considering the usage of the dng format.
UPDATE
I've realized that my program is loading the RGB buffer into the fData of the stage3 image object. I have a feeling I need stages1 and 2 but i'm unsure if I need to and if so, then i will probaby need a source DNG to produce those stage1 and stage2 unless I can get stage1 or 2 from stage 3 (appears it works vice versa).
I'm able to do the reverse (DNG to RGB raw) by extracting the buffer from the stage3 render. but in this case, all the metadata has been filled in by the input DNG. However, going from RGB to DNG, I don't have the metadata to fill into stage 1 and 2.

My understanding of the JPG is only middling. I thought I understood that it uses anchor pixels and either a translation table of some sort or difference mapping, using 8 bits per piece of information.
If that were the case, surely changing the translation from CMYK to RGB would be fairly simple.
In this case, the usage is Ebay and they only accept JPG, PNG (and maybe BMP and GIF, I didn't look that closely), but require RGB. I was actually quite surprised to find that JPG allows CMYK since, as you say, anyone dealing with CMYK is going to be dealing with commercial printing and few people who deal with commercial printing would play around with JPG.
I always stick to TIFF or PSD for workflow, but JPG is popular for a reason - when it comes to web, JPG is the only format that can deliver manageable file sizes with full-screen or "large" images for web. Our top level banner photo is 2590x692 and needs to be under 400kb for sane download speeds. PNG couldn't touch that. Even with the aforementioned 1800x1200, PNG is nearly 2mb, while I can maintain very decent quality with a 500kb file with JPG that works well for 'zoom in' type usage.
So there's no way around JPG. It's just annoying that the first person to touch a random selection of the pics was primarily an Illustrator user and saved *some* of the pics in CMYK mode.
It's like that old story about the farmer who didn't want anyone to steal his watermelons, so he cleverly posted a sign "None of these watermelons are poisoned", only to find a note the next day saying "Now, One of these watermelons is...".
Far more work to fix 'some' of the images compared to just doing it right the first time.
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Embedded Color Profile is Lost When Content is Published to Web or Dragging Image Window on Desktop

Hello, Everyone. I have a question that I have struggled to crack on my own to no avail. I hope someone here can help.
I am trying to publish some images to the web using color corrected monitors, RAW format, and a color checker passport to create a perfeect color profile. Here are the technical details and my workflow.
Camera: Canon Rebel EOS Xsi
Format: RAW + L
Color Space: sRGB
Color Checker: X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Monitor Calibrator: Spyder4 Pro, fully updated software
Computer: Lenovo T420 ThinkPad
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Photoshop Color Settings: Custom North America Web/Internet
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Spot: Dot Grain 20%
Policies
RGB: Preserve Embedded Profiles
CMYK: Preserve Embedded Profiles
Gray: Preserve Embedded Profiles
After importing the image into Photoshop, I make sure the RAW space is set to sRGB IEC6 1966-2.1
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set the white balance
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First, everything seems to go great throughout this entire process, until I see the image on the Web: LINK. Once published, the image has a very noticible golden-yellow tint to it. The color-corrected image looks great on both color-calibrated monitors, in RAW and JPEG. Absolutely perfect. After noticing the ugly yellow tint in the image I posted to the Web, however, I became aware of a couple more weird things.
1) When the JPEG was open in Photoshop and I moved the window that contained the image around on my second monitor, the image immediately took on that golden-yellow tint: you can see a screen shot of the color corrected image on my Samsung (bottom) and the yellow version of the same image created when I drag the window around on the Samsung (top) HERE.
2) When opening the X-Rite software, I got a warning saying that the laptop monitor had been calibrated, but that the Samsung had not. I got this error even if I calibrated the Samsung monitor right before using X-Rite. Also, the monitor is definitely calibrated, because the images look great, and the colors match what I see on the laptop.
3) Recently, I noticed that when waking my computer from sleep, the Samsung monitor no longer holds its Datacolor (Spyder4) calibration.
I thought the problem I was having might be due to the monitor, for the reasons stated above. However, I later noticed that when I open the color-corrected JPEG with the default Windows image viewer, it retains the color correction settings. The image looks fantastic, and doesn't lose it's color profile when I drag the window around. Also, there seems to be less color loss in the Word documents and PDFs I included this image in: LINK.
I checked this with several more images, and the results are the exact same. I scoured the Web as best I could, but my problem seems to be pretty unique. Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this?
Thank you!

Thank you, twenty_one, for taking the time to read my post and put up a reply. I am going to rebuild my question and post it again here. But first, to answer some of your points:
1. A raw file has no color space, until it's opened into one in the raw converter. So this is controlled in ACR, not the camera.
I just wanted to be as thorough as possible. One of the steps I took was to set the Color Space setting in my camera to sRGB:
2. White balance has no bearing whatsoever on camera profiles. A profile is not for white balancing, it's to account for the spectral distribution of the light, which is something else. You make the profile and assign it in ACR, then you white balance for processing.
I know. I wasn't talking about white balance in my camera. I set the white balance here:
I grabbed the color for setting the WB here:
3. If you get a message about monitor calibration upon opening the camera calibration software, something is seriously confused. The two have nothing to do with each other. No relation whatsoever.
Camera calibration software?
4. A corrupted monitor profile will only show up in Photoshop and other color managed software. Other applications that are not color managed will not use the profile and are not affected. So find out which apps are and which aren't before drawing any conclusions.
Agreed. That's partly what I am trying to get help with.
5. Your links don't work, and in any case clicking on links is something most people including myself dislike. It's much better to insert screenshots in the post, by using the camera icon in the reply box.
I'm new to this forum, so this is helpful to know. This image shows the color-corrected image (bottom) on my Samsung. It looks exactly the same in the same window on my laptop monitor. When I move that window around on my Samsung screen, it turns gold (top). The image, when posted to the web, looks *similar* to that gold color.
So let's say I only use Photoshop on my laptop, which is not displaying any colors. Do you think the golden hue problem will go away?

Color profiles do not stay synchronized across all applications in CS6

I've recently uopgraded my system to Maverick. Using Adobe CS6 Suite. It seems as of late when selecting a color profile for the creative suite, the application does not keep the color setting. They say synchronized but when reopening to check again, it says unsynchronized.
Also, When making a PDF from InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop, the colors look dead and darker in the PDF. Again, the Acrobat color prefs say "unsynchronized". If I go to Bridge and re-apply the profile, all is fine, but on reopening the color prefs in Acrobat they are back to "unsynchronized". This also happens in InDesign and Illustrator.
All this an more. I work with a client who is the inhouse graphics manager. We run the same software and the same profiles, yet the same color files look different on his computer than on mine.
Can someone shed some light on this issue. Been doing this many years and have not had this problem.

Not all that familiar with Color sync but bridge should be acting as the central and when you have selected the correct color profile in Bridge CS6 under the menu edit / color settings all CS6 applications should have this profile / setting show.
In your case I would start to reset preferences for Bridge with holding down option key while starting Bridge and from the menu choose reset preferences.
Maybe even do this with al other CS applications if only bridge does not help.
And this is no help to you but I'm still not on Mavericks but if I make the switch I don't use the option for upgrade but make a day free to install everything from scratch. For normal use with a few apps it might not be important to do so but with a lot of apps and daily use in a professional workflow I always go for security versus speed

How to get paper color profiles when printing from Acrobat

Hello,
I've been in trouble trying to print with specific paper profiles from Acrobat.
I'm running on mac os 10.8.5, and the latest version of the suite (Acrobat XI).
My printer is an Epson 3880.
I can print ok using my paper profiles when I'm printing from Photoshop; the paper profils show up in the printer box,
and I can choose from my different paper profiles, some of which I've installed recently, non-Epson papers.
But those paper profiles don't show up in the menu when I print from Acrobat…
Any hints why I can't reach those?
Thanks in advance for any help,
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Are you talking about the color profiles? If so then:
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I know this is a tricky topic, but I'm trying to nail it down.
The colors of the prints from iPhoto on my Canon Pixma iP4000 inkjet do not match what I see on my ibook G4 LCD monitor on my ibook. I do most of my editing within iPhoto (although some in Elements). What color profile do you suggest I use with the display--I've tried Color LCD and sRGB (both types) but the colors are still off from the printed output.
The photos generally have sRGBIEC61996-2.1 embedded in them. The output is better with Colorsync on than off, but I still get a yellowish cast on my printed output. I know I could adjust picture by picture, but I need a more comprehensive solution. I'm also not sure anymore how files sent to photo processors and Apple books will turn out compared to my display.
Many thanks for any advice you could give. BTW is there any way to find the kind of embedded profiles in a picture from within iPhoto 6, as well as its current (edited) resolution and size?
Jack Shalom

dhollister:
You probably know more about it that I but in iPhoto's Advanced preferences section there's a checkbox to Add ColorSync Profile (upon import). I've not gotten a good handle on it but you can experiment with some files with that option turned on and off to see if it will correct your problem.
Just ran a test with an image file right out of my Canon camera with the Camera RGB profile. I imported that file with and without that check box selected and didn't see any diffference. Checked the EXIF fields with another application, iView MediaPro, and both reported just "RGB". The user may have to add the particular profile to the file before importing to the the profile they want. I added with iView MediaPro the sRGB and the sRGB IEC6 1966-2.1 profiles and saw little difference when comparing them on screen. I then added the Adobe RGB 1968 profile and then saw a more saturated color in the image. All comparisons were made in iPhoto in the full screen mode.
I know Apple uses the sRGB profile for it's printing, books, etc. so have set up my Photoshop CS2 preferences to use that profile. I've also set my monitor to use the sRGB profile. The books I've ordered have been good color wise so I guess it's working for me.
Hope this information has been of some help.
Do you Twango?

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How can I see, within LR2, which Color Profile is embedded in JPEG and TIFF versions of my pix? The "Color Profile" field is provided in "Properties - Metadata" in Photoshop Elements, but I cannot find the "Color Profile" field in LR2 "Library - Metadata", even when I select the "All" option for the Metadata panel.
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Paul,
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