Photoshop "convert to profile" box---how to ignore?

Hello,
I have an batch & action that "converts to profile" as well as other image resizings--and then saves.
On 2 workstations--the batch,action works fine.
On the 3rd workstation, I get the "convert to profile" window asking to "confirm"?
Where do I go to fix this?
its not the batch because when I run the action (only) on the machines---it stops on the 3rd yet the first 2 machines--the action works without a hitch.
Any tips would be appreciated.
thanks,
Tom

Hi,
Do you have both Suppress File Open Options Dialogs and Suppress Color Profile Warnings checked in the Batch dialog?

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conroy wrote:
In this case, I don't see anything to complain about.
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I guess one must not need the F2 key to play most of the games in the App Store.
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Convert Colors profile to threshold to black? [A9]

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with these Curves:
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PS CC Converting to profile and embedding a profile

Hi,
I just started using PS CC 2014. I have a number of variables that have changed, such as a new iMac, secondary monitor etc. I am working in aRGB when processing and I go to print via the Canon plug-in for Photoshop. I convert to profile using the ICC profile I want to use for the media and ink set that I am using. I had custom profiles made for these papers. When I save the file after printing it, it embeds the ICC profile, example Epson Premium Luster etc. instead of keeping it in the aRGB working space. I do not recall ever seeing this done automatically in prior versions and years that I have used PS. I would like to save the changes etc. but I do not want the paper profile embedded because I may want to use another paper with that file next time. When I open the file the next time and I want to print it I get the message that there is a mis-match between working profile and embedded profile, or something similar to that ( I do not have the message in front of me ). That means I have to convert the file to the working space at that point and it is an extra step that I did not have to do before.
Is there a box I need to check or uncheck somewhere to keep the file in the aRGB space or am I just loosing my mind here?
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Jim

I'm not a Color Management expert, but converting and then saving from Adobe RGB to a Printer Profile tags and saves that file with that profile.
Your file space, Adobe RGB, no longer matches Photoshop's Adobe RGB working space and that's why you get the warning.
If you are printing from Photoshop, you do not convert to that profile and save, otherwise it is embedded.
That would only make sense if the printer was somewhere else, and you would then make a copy of that file with that specific printer profile embedded.
What you do is use the Print dialog and check "let Photoshop manage colors" and you pick your profile from the list.
Your file stays tagged as Adobe RGB.
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Edit menu > Color Settings
Uncheck these boxes:
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Good day!
• Edit > Assign Profile
The RGB (or grayscale or CMYK) values are not changed, the appearance is changed (if the Color Spaces are not basically identical)
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after this i have save file and close it and i didn't have backup of this file.
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Sorry bud...but if you converted to CMYK and did NOT hceck Preserve Layers and then saved over your original layered RGB file, your layered RGB image is toast–as in gone, as in you are screwed...sorry, but Convert to Profile can flatten all the layers (depending on the options) and once flattened and saved, you have no option to recover the layered RGB file (unless you have is saved somewhere).

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Any hint or slap on the head that might jog my memory will be appreciated. The Help files have not been helpful yet. As the fortune cookie said, old age always comes at a most inopportune time.
Thanks in advance.
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steve fairbairn wrote:
Or do you mean Assign Current Working Space (colour profile) when opening a file?
No! When you Assign a profile, you preserve the numbers but you change (wreck the hell out of) the colors. When you Convert to a Profile, you change the numbers but you preserve the colors.
It seems that old AI 10 did not have such a menu Command in the Edit menu, as Photoshop has, so the workaround would be to close the file and pen it again, at which time you do get presented with the choice of CONVERTING to a profile.
steve fairbairn wrote:
Edit:
Edit > Color Settings (Cmd+Shift+K)
No, Changing your Color settings is a global dialog box that affects your working space, not your open document.
Thank you for your time anyway.

Convert to profile

CS3 - When exporting InDesign documents to pdf files a safe workflow
requires to use "Convert to profile - preserve numbers". If we only use
"Convert to profile" black text may separate. I am wondering what you do
use this "Convert to profile" for at all?
Regards Nina Storm

and another scenerio falling on the same problem:
i recieved corporate logo in AI format with strict corporate color specifications like this:
MEGAN Ltd. Yellow: 5,15,100,15
MEGAN Ltd. Blue: 100,25,5,20
AI Embedded profile: Euroscale
that means, that whoever was creativelly choosing the colors for the logo, he was choosing and viewing them under Euroscale profile...
now, when i open this AI document in my Illustrator, i get a profile mismatch warning, because we use ISO Coated v2 as default CMYK working space for all Adobe apps in our workflow.
now lets go through the options Illustrator gives me:
1) i "USE THE EMBEDDED PROFILE INSTEAD OF MY WORKING SPACE" which is recommended by Adobe because it saves the CMYK raw numbers and most importantlly it uses the original embedded profile to paint the color numbers on my screen, so i see the exact colors as they were seen by the author of the document, because we both look on the same raw numbers using the same profile Euroscale. IDEAL
2) when i would use "CONVERT DOCUMENTS COLORS TO WORKING SPACE" I would also get the same LOOK of the colors, because Illustrator would take raw numbers under Euroscale and recalculate them into my ISOCoated v2 to ensure the colors on the monitor LOOK same in my "ISO Coated workflow" as they looked in the "Euroscale workflow" used originally by the author of the logo.
BUT HERE COMES A LITTLE FLAW IN SO FAR ALMOST IDEAL WORKFLOW - instead of the specified corporate colors given by the author using Euroscale:
MEGAN Ltd. Yellow: 5,15,100,15
MEGAN Ltd. Blue: 100,25,5,20
my illustrator converts these nice and easy to follow corporate numbers into complete mess:
MEGAN Ltd. Yellow: 3.52 , 14.45 , 100 , 15.63
MEGAN Ltd. Blue: 100 , 19.53 , 4.69 , 22.66
now imagine i would be working for giants like FORD, COCACOLA or MARLBORO i cannot change the raw color numbers just like that everytime I or somebody else down the road happens to use different working profile than the original embedded profile. in some companies the corporate CMYK numbers are "holy" and nobody can change them along the process...
so that sends me pretty much into ONLY possible direction in Illustrator and that is to preserve raw numbers AND also preserve embedded profile to ensure i see the same colors on my monitor as the author did... therefore in this case i choose "USE THE EMBEDDED PROFILE INSTEAD OF MY WORKING SPACE" to preserve numbers and profile (thus look of the colors)
BUT HOW ABOUT INDESIGN ??!!
Because I use the widelly recommended policy by Adobe for CMYK "Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles)" I import the AI document with the logo into InDesign and here iam again...
InDesign reads the raw numbers from AI logo ("Preserve Numbers...") but he discards or ignores the embedded profile ("...(Ignore Linked Profiles)")
so if i understand this weird policy correctlly InDesign is ignoring the original embedded Euroscale profile used by the author of the logo while he was choosing and viewing the colors and instead uses current Document's CMYK profile (the one selected in Assign Profiles dialogbox in InDesign, in my case that is ISOCOated v2)
SO AT THIS MOMENT the author of the logo and I have the same raw numbers in InDesign but if we would go to Soft-proof we would both see different colors (color variations) because the author is looking on the numbers using Euroscale profile and my InDesign now uses Document's CMYK profile which is ISO Coated v2
WRONG!

Convert to Profile (Applescript)

Hi All,
I'm looking for an applescript command to perform "Convert to Profile" on my current document in Photoshop CS3. I've seen a Javascript solution in this Forum, but nothing for applescript. Any help would be appreciated.
I would also love to know how to set PS preferences so that all new docs created in a given image mode use a pre-set profile.
Thanks,
Jamie

Jamie, you can set Photoshop's colour settings by name string before opening/creating your files. You can decide how to treat profiles there. This should give you some help.
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
-- Record current settings
set User_CS to color settings
-- Apply your settings
set color settings to "Marks Test"
end tell
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
activate
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if color profile name ≠ "Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27" then
set color profile name to "Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27"
end if
-- Convert to colour profile
if color profile name ≠ "U.S. Sheetfed Coated v2" then
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end if
end tell
end tell
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set color settings to User_CS
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Convert to Profile Puzzlement

I am afraid I am revealing my ignorance with this question, but I am puzzled by what I see when I convert an image from Adobe RGB to sRGB. What I see is no change whatsoever, that is visible to my eye. My working space is Adobe RGB, but when I convert an image to sRGB in order to send it for viewing on a monitor, as for example when attaching a lower-resolution version to an e-mail, I see no difference in the image on my calibrated (Spyder2) monitor.
I start with an image taken with my Canon 40D with the color space set for Adobe RGB, as I print most of my good images and do not post images on the Web with any frequency. As I mentioned, my Photoshop CS3 working space is also Adobe RGB. When I do use Convert to Profile... and choose sRGB, I can see no change at all. I have tried a different copy of the sRGB profile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1), properly installed in C:/Windows/System32/Spool/Drivers/Color, but there is no difference.
Explanation or clarification will be appreciated.
Bob N.

Not sure I agree there...?
The way I understand it, "convert to profile" isn't supposed to change appearance, that's the whole point, because Photoshop is changing the actual numbers to accomodate the new profile.
"Assign profile" on the other hand, *will* change the appearance.
This becomes clearer if you keep the histogram open: when you "convert", you can actually see the histogram change. With "assign" the histogram doesn't change - and as a consequence; the appearance does.
The reason for "converting" from your working space (Adobe/ProPhoto) to sRGB is so that the image will look *roughly* the same in a non-color managed environment (e.g. the web) as it does on your color managed monitor.
...or am I way off here?

Why Doesn't Illustrator do "Convert to Profile?"

In Photoshop, I can do all my work in Adobe RGB and then use "convert to profile" to create the final output file depending on how it will be used (sRGB, CMYK Sheetfed Coated, CMYK SWOP Uncoated etc.)
But in Illustrator there is no "convert to profile" -- and "assign profile" doesn't do the same thing.
I use Illustrator to create graphics for both web and print projects... so how do I work in Adobe RGB (to take advantage of the wider gamut) but still output proper colour profile files -- without having to go and change the colour settings every time I go from a print project to a web project?
Leif

Well, File>Document Colour Mode only converts to the working CMYK or the working RGB colour space -- so it's not quite what I'm after...
But maybe I should just make my default RGB space to be sRGB. That would simplify my web graphics workflow, and I could still easily go to CMYK when I output for print. It seems like the convenience of working in sRGB outweighs the benefit of the wider gamut of Adobe RGB.
What do you guys think? Are there any practical, real-world downsides to using sRGB for all my RGB design work? (we're not talking about fine art photography)
What default working spaces do you guys use? How do you deal with going back and forth between web projects and print projects?

Photoshop: Making a text box with color or border.

How do you fill a text box in Photoshop?
Answer: You CAN’T.
Solution: You CAN do anything you want in Photoshop -we know it’s GREAT - but the steps are not always so easy. See below for solutions to making it seem that the text box is filled with color, bordered, semi-tansparent etc.
In Photoshop, a text box is mostly about the text inside and less about the box that surrounds it. In other words, the box is always transparent and all effects apply to the font shapes typed inside by the user. Photoshop (CS4) can produce incredible, professional, amazing text images. No Doubt About It!
A Photoshop text box can display one of two types of bounding boxes:
Its OBJECT bounding box is there for moving the whole text layer, rotating it, duplicating it and distorting. Clicking once on the text layer pallet and selecting the move tool (v) will produce this bounding box. The direct selection tool (a) won’t recognize it. Note: If you try to resize the box as an object, it also distorts/stretches the text inside. This can make cool effects but usually you want the text to stay the way the font was designed. See: Layers>Type>Warp Text.
The TEXT bounding box is there for highlighting, re-typing and selecting the margins of the actual text/paragraph etc. Selecting the text tool and clicking over existing text will produce this bounding box.
Some features are accessible in either mode.
The Photoshop text tool has two types of cursors:
The NEW text box cursor looks like a text insertion cursor (often seen in word processing) WITH a dotted box around it.
To produce the new text box cursor just select the text tool and move over to a new work area.
The EDIT text cursor looks very much like the ordinary cursor people are familiar with (no dotted box).
To produce the edit text tool, hover the text tool over EXISTING text and the cursor changes to the simple insertion shape (without the dotted box). A click now will put you into text editing mode, not new text box mode. This drove me batty for a while because I was used to clicking anywhere inside an existing text box and the blinking cursor would pop in automatically - usually at the end of the last letter. This doesn’t happen in Photoshop; if that NEW text box tool is active, it will try to place a new box anywhere you click sometimes overlapping another.
When in this mode (edit existing text) you can carefully hover the arrow to the edges of the text box and resize the bounding box without altering the shape of the text itself. This is how you make the text box larger or smaller to fit/accommodate your needs. You can also highlight text, insert between words/letters. Highlighted text is available for changing its font, color, size, cutting/pasting etc.
To get OUT of the EDIT text mode, click the check box on the tool column above or type enter (not return) or type cmd-return (MAC), ctrl-return (WIN). If you want to cancel any changes to an existing text box click the ex-circle on the tool column or press the esc key (top left of keyboard-escape key)
OK, THE MAIN POINT:
To make an effect that looks like a text box that is filled, bordered, semi-transparent etc., you will have to create an object shape (box) and place it just behind (under) the text box. Linking the two allows you to move them around easily. The drawback is that, when you need a larger box, you’ll have to alter the size of both boxes and possibly re-center them to each other (I know it’s sort of dumb to have so many steps just to get a shaded text box or bordered one.)
Begin by selecting the Rectangle shape tool and draw a shape on the screen of any size. In the layers pallet a layer is created with two items (layer thumbnail and vector mask) Double click the one on the left the layer thumbnail). Change its color to a light one such as baby blue or yellow.
Now select the text tool and click once over that shape. A text box is created exactly the same size of the rectangle (any shape will work too).
Type some text into that box and change the font type, size and color to something you might use regularly. Check to see that the text color is black (can be changed later). The text automatically wraps around when you reach the edge of this box and fits well (inside margins can be altered by pixel later).
Now link the two boxes to one another. Shift-click each layer in the layers pallet to select both and choose the link button at the bottom of the window for layers or go to Layers>Link Layers. Now when you move one it will move the other too!
Using the paragraph tools you can center text, indent first line, and add space between paragraphs. Except the first paragraph seems too close to the top of the colored rectangle; doesn’t it? Photoshop won’t add extra leading (horizontal space) between the text box and the top of the first paragraph.
There are two ways to fix this:
1.     Select the text tool and click inside the existing text then hover the pointer just above the little box/tab in the top center of that rectangle and bring it down just a bit.
2.     Or you could unlink the two layers (to unlink just click link again while one of the two layers is selected in pallet) and move the colored rectangle up just a bit.
In the first instance it was not necessary to unlink the boxes. This is the advantage because altering the colored rectangle without unlinking will distort your text as will altering the text box if you are not in object text mode (see intro.)
Ok, some advantages:
Now that you have this set up you can use the background box (colored rectangle) to make other effects. Select it as a separate layer but you won’t have to unlink it. To make the box semi-transparent change either the layer OPACITY or the layer FILL (found in the layer pallet).
To create a border box:
1.     Select the colored rectangle box and under Layers>Styles>Blending Options (or just double click in an open area of the layer pallet for that shape.)
2.     Select Stroke, change: Fill Type color, Color black, Size 4, Position inside, Blend Mode normal, Opacity 100%. Click OK/Apply
3.     Back in the layer pallet, change the Fill to 0% and you will just have a border with attached text box. You may have to alter the inside text box again depending on the thickness of that border especially if you made the Position to be inside to keep the sharpness of the rectangle.
4.     Yes this will work with other shapes and even custom shapes. Remember to draw the shape first and immediately place a new text box over it BEFORE any other alteration is done. This ensures that Photoshop creates a text box exactly the same size/dimension of your chosen shape. It even makes margins fit irregular shapes like triangles.
5.     Try it!

Toxic Cumquat wrote:
How do you fill a text box in Photoshop?
Answer: You CAN’T.
Solution: You CAN do anything you want in Photoshop -we know it’s GREAT - but the steps are not always so easy. See below for solutions to making it seem that the text box is filled with color, bordered, semi-tansparent etc.
In Photoshop, a text box is mostly about the text inside and less about the box that surrounds it. In other words, the box is always transparent and all effects apply to the font shapes typed inside by the user. Photoshop (CS4) can produce incredible, professional, amazing text images. No Doubt About It!
A Photoshop text box can display one of two types of bounding boxes:
Its OBJECT bounding box is there for moving the whole text layer, rotating it, duplicating it and distorting. Clicking once on the text layer pallet and selecting the move tool (v) will produce this bounding box. The direct selection tool (a) won’t recognize it. Note: If you try to resize the box as an object, it also distorts/stretches the text inside. This can make cool effects but usually you want the text to stay the way the font was designed. See: Layers>Type>Warp Text.
The TEXT bounding box is there for highlighting, re-typing and selecting the margins of the actual text/paragraph etc. Selecting the text tool and clicking over existing text will produce this bounding box.
Some features are accessible in either mode.
The Photoshop text tool has two types of cursors:
The NEW text box cursor looks like a text insertion cursor (often seen in word processing) WITH a dotted box around it.
To produce the new text box cursor just select the text tool and move over to a new work area.
The EDIT text cursor looks very much like the ordinary cursor people are familiar with (no dotted box).
To produce the edit text tool, hover the text tool over EXISTING text and the cursor changes to the simple insertion shape (without the dotted box). A click now will put you into text editing mode, not new text box mode. This drove me batty for a while because I was used to clicking anywhere inside an existing text box and the blinking cursor would pop in automatically - usually at the end of the last letter. This doesn’t happen in Photoshop; if that NEW text box tool is active, it will try to place a new box anywhere you click sometimes overlapping another.
When in this mode (edit existing text) you can carefully hover the arrow to the edges of the text box and resize the bounding box without altering the shape of the text itself. This is how you make the text box larger or smaller to fit/accommodate your needs. You can also highlight text, insert between words/letters. Highlighted text is available for changing its font, color, size, cutting/pasting etc.
To get OUT of the EDIT text mode, click the check box on the tool column above or type enter (not return) or type cmd-return (MAC), ctrl-return (WIN). If you want to cancel any changes to an existing text box click the ex-circle on the tool column or press the esc key (top left of keyboard-escape key)
OK, THE MAIN POINT:
To make an effect that looks like a text box that is filled, bordered, semi-transparent etc., you will have to create an object shape (box) and place it just behind (under) the text box. Linking the two allows you to move them around easily. The drawback is that, when you need a larger box, you’ll have to alter the size of both boxes and possibly re-center them to each other (I know it’s sort of dumb to have so many steps just to get a shaded text box or bordered one.)
Begin by selecting the Rectangle shape tool and draw a shape on the screen of any size. In the layers pallet a layer is created with two items (layer thumbnail and vector mask) Double click the one on the left the layer thumbnail). Change its color to a light one such as baby blue or yellow.
Now select the text tool and click once over that shape. A text box is created exactly the same size of the rectangle (any shape will work too).
Type some text into that box and change the font type, size and color to something you might use regularly. Check to see that the text color is black (can be changed later). The text automatically wraps around when you reach the edge of this box and fits well (inside margins can be altered by pixel later).
Now link the two boxes to one another. Shift-click each layer in the layers pallet to select both and choose the link button at the bottom of the window for layers or go to Layers>Link Layers. Now when you move one it will move the other too!
Using the paragraph tools you can center text, indent first line, and add space between paragraphs. Except the first paragraph seems too close to the top of the colored rectangle; doesn’t it? Photoshop won’t add extra leading (horizontal space) between the text box and the top of the first paragraph.
There are two ways to fix this:
1.     Select the text tool and click inside the existing text then hover the pointer just above the little box/tab in the top center of that rectangle and bring it down just a bit.
2.     Or you could unlink the two layers (to unlink just click link again while one of the two layers is selected in pallet) and move the colored rectangle up just a bit.
In the first instance it was not necessary to unlink the boxes. This is the advantage because altering the colored rectangle without unlinking will distort your text as will altering the text box if you are not in object text mode (see intro.)
Ok, some advantages:
Now that you have this set up you can use the background box (colored rectangle) to make other effects. Select it as a separate layer but you won’t have to unlink it. To make the box semi-transparent change either the layer OPACITY or the layer FILL (found in the layer pallet).
To create a border box:
1.     Select the colored rectangle box and under Layers>Styles>Blending Options (or just double click in an open area of the layer pallet for that shape.)
2.     Select Stroke, change: Fill Type color, Color black, Size 4, Position inside, Blend Mode normal, Opacity 100%. Click OK/Apply
3.     Back in the layer pallet, change the Fill to 0% and you will just have a border with attached text box. You may have to alter the inside text box again depending on the thickness of that border especially if you made the Position to be inside to keep the sharpness of the rectangle.
4.     Yes this will work with other shapes and even custom shapes. Remember to draw the shape first and immediately place a new text box over it BEFORE any other alteration is done. This ensures that Photoshop creates a text box exactly the same size/dimension of your chosen shape. It even makes margins fit irregular shapes like triangles.
5.     Try it! Or try using Indesign!
There. I fixed that for you.

HT1212 im locked out of my ipod, and the screen isnt responding when i go to swipe to unlock it or when i swipe to turn it off. But, in the top left hand corner, there is an outline of a box. how do i fix this

im locked out of my ipod, and the screen isnt responding when i go to swipe to unlock it or when i swipe to turn it off. All of my notifications are there but i cant reply to any of them. My screen is completly unresponsive. But, in the top left hand corner, there is an outline of a box. how do i fix this?

First, try a system reset. It cures many ills and it's quick, easy and harmless...
Hold down the on/off switch and the Home button simultaneously until you see the Apple logo. Ignore the "Slide to power off" text if it appears. You will not lose any apps, data, music, movies, settings, etc.
If the Reset doesn't work, try a Restore. Note that it's nowhere near as quick as a Reset. It could take well over an hour! Connect via cable to the computer that you use for sync. From iTunes, select the iPad/iPod and then select the Summary tab. Follow directions for Restore and be sure to say "yes" to the backup. You will be warned that all data (apps, music, movies, etc.) will be erased but, as the Restore finishes, you will be asked if you wish the contents of the backup to be copied to the iPad/iPod. Again, say "yes."
At the end of the basic Restore, you will be asked if you wish to sync the iPad/iPod. As before, say "yes." Note that that sync selection will disappear and the Restore will end if you do not respond within a reasonable time. If that happens, only the apps that are part of the IOS will appear on your device. Corrective action is simple - choose manual "Sync" from the bottom right of iTunes.
If you're unable to do the Restore, go into Recovery Mode per the instructions here.

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