How to associate color profile to pictures?

I am importing under LR thousands of scanned slides, that came out of the scanner in RAW format without a color profile associated. Therefore I need to tag them with the scanner color profile (which I have). Is there any way to do it with LR? More specifically, to do it while importing the photos? Otherwise I plan to use a Photoshop action from Photoshop...

Raw files from Scanners are not Camera Raws. LR is unlikely to read them. Best to use a scanner software like VueScan which can give you a DNG file or TIFF and have the scanner software tag the profile.
At least thais is as I have read it in other much older threads and fron a scanning fiend friend.
Don
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audi454 wrote:
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DNGPE104-Mac: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5493
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>When I purchase these ADOBE products I expect them to JUST WORK!!!!!
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>I dont wanna have to be worried about corrupt profiles yada yada yada!!!
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>How do I fix this and please go through it STEP BY STEP BY STEP!!!!
I am not one for the computer lingo....
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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).
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2. Calibrate your screen following the instructions from the software
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Patrick:
First, you did check your ink cartridges to make sure you're not out in any of them? Duh. Make sure your monitor is calibrated. I use sRGB as the profile and adjust the brightness to make up for the aging monitor. Setting the gamma at 2.2 will help with just darkness.
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Do you Twango?
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