Please help. Color shift in Aperture, iPhoto, Preview ...

I get a color shift on all my photos to more pink colors.
Red gets pinkish
Blue gets purple
.. and so on
iPhoto screwes up like Aperture and so does "the slide show function" in Finder and Preview.
It's nothing wrong with my calibration. It's all hardware calibrated and Photoshop displays the pictures correct.
Does all of Apple's software that's supposed to be ColorSync friendly use the same resource when displaying pictures onscreen?
Seems like a common bug for all Apple Software built into the system.
Changing Color profile for my displays doesn't make a difference.
Please help !
I'm going crazy

Digitaldog:
Pictures are from a varied set of sources. Some from
SLRs like Canon EOS 5D & 10D, some from scanners.
DSLRs don’t embed true ICC profiles but instead EXIF data. ICC aware applications don’t look for that. The files are probably in Adobe RGB (1998) as you say but might be untagged (meaning, there’s no true ICC profile embedded in the file). It’s easy enough to test.
There's no difference in appearance between these
pictures onscreen
On screen where? Photoshop can read the EXIF data if you have your preferences set.
What do you mean?
Are pictures taken on my EOS 5D not tagget as Adobe
RGB?
Not as far as ICC aware applications are concerned.
Photoshop says different.
They all show up as tagged.
Still, humor me and use the Assign Profile command and pick Adobe RGB (1998) then save the file again.
You imply that a file can be "in Adobe RGB and
untagged" ?
A file can be in any color space an untagged. It’s RGB or CMYK mystery meat. The profile only defines the scale of the exiting numbers for ICC aware applications. Lots of dumb web browsers show similar issues. You have data that IS in Adobe RGB (1998) but the browser doesn’t know this. It sends the numbers directly to the screen and the preview isn’t correct.
True ICC profile? Does the opposite exist?
From page 167 of my book:
EXIF Data and the Lie about Your Color Space: For whatever reason, when a consortium
of Japanese camera manufacturers came up with a method of identifying the RGB color space
of their camera data using EXIF data, they did so in an obscure and confusing way. In 1999,
the Japanese digital camera industry implemented a “standard format”they called Design Rule
for Camera File Systems version 1.0,or DCF for short.In that specification,the EXIF data simply
specified whether the camera data was encoded into sRGB based on the matrix setting con-
figured on the camera. If a camera encoded the data to Adobe RGB (1998) or any other avail-
able color space besides sRGB,the EXIF tag was set to “none,”causing Photoshop to produce
a Missing Profilewarning dialog if the color settings were configured to warn the user. This
caused all kinds of problems,to the degree that Adobe had to produce a plug-in for Photoshop
7 (and a setting in the general preferences for Photoshop CS as well as CS2) called Ignore EXIF
profile tag(see Fig. 5-4). This sets Photoshop to ignore the color space specified in the EXIF
data and the result is a Missing Profilewarning dialog,which allows the user to pick the correct
profile to assign. In late 2003, DCF 2.0 was introduced and it does specify Adobe RGB (1998)
in the EXIF data. Not all new cameras necessarily support this, however. None of this has any
effect on RAW data although it still does apply when a camera is set to shoot RAW+JPEG files.
PowerBook, G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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