Quick Color Profile Switching? Applescript or Widget Available?

This question could really be on some other forums ...
We edit a lot of pictures professionally on our iMac, but we also use it for real life. Our calibrated color profile is not as "pretty" as the regular iMac color profile, but jumping into system preferences every time to switch the profile back and forth gets annoying.
Is there a widget or a script that we could download that will quickly switch our color profile one or two clicks?
Thanks!

Have you tried just not switching? Your eyes do adjust to a particular profile after a while and it looks fine. I know what you mean--when I have another mac with those bright bluish whites next to my profiled mac, mine looks dull and dingy, but after a whle without looking at a different profile you don't see that anymore.
(there's a utility called gamma toggle that lets you switch gamma settings from the menubar, but I don't know of a fast profile switcher offhand)

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I cannot agree more with your comments! What a way to frustrate your customers!
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

The link I provided before is the solution.
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Dear Adobe community,
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ARGH!!!!

iWEB 08 is a fully color confused application, whilst iPhoto is only partly color confused.
The following applies when dragging images from iPhoto library, with the "Optimize Images on Import" option on. According to the manual, this option only changes the size, but I would not be surprised if it changes something else also. Then after, exporting from iWEB to files on the hard drive.
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a) Image, including thumbnails should be in sRGB color space (Otherwise it will NOT display correctly on MicroSoft systems, where browsers happily ignores color profiles and sRGB is ASSUMED for all images)
b) There should be an sRGB color profile in the image file, including thumbnails (Otherwise it will NOT display correctly on MacOS, where browsers assume AppleRGB, but will happily adjust to any color profile)
c) Discard unnecessary information in the file to reduce size, such as EXIF information, thumbnails etc (optional rule)
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1) Keep calling Apple Cupertino until they fix the problem (really, I am not joking, I am tired)
2) Convert images after they have been exported. This seems to work also, almost. However, converting a pictures color space is not exactly reversible, thus result is not perfect. Use for instance Photoshop CS1 or later (make sure color settings is such that there are no conversions when you open files and use the colorimetric conversion option in advanced settings) and:
a) Open picture
b) Assign AppleRGB profile
c) Convert to sRGB
d) Assign the original profile (usually sRGB or AdobeRGB or the cameras RGB)
e) Convert to sRGB
f) Save (with option: include color profile)
File is now about 2 times the original
g) Open graphics converter
h) Choose convert...
i) Choose file(s), hold Cmd-key and choose remove resources (which does not remove the color profile)
File is now ok for publishing on the WEB
TIP, if it seems like a daunting task to manually convert all of the exported images (and do not forget the thumbnails), make an Action-script in Photoshop, then use the Batch feature with sub-folders etc .... . Also the graphics converter operation can be applied to include subfolders. I did this, and it works ok, but be sure to only convert YOUR images, not the other files in the structure. I also applied the same conversion to the thumbnails to simpify things and it turned out not to bad. (Can somebody make an AppleScript maybe?)
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If you read all of this, you are a patient person. Thanks for the attention.
Tomas Jonsson, Genicore Embedded Systems AB

Newbie needs help with color profiles

somewhat new to digital photography and send most of my stuff to local lab (Costco) when needing to print. I have a mac, with Leopard, and use Lightroom to export to jpgs and upload to the lab site.
Simple enough, but I noticed their site had the icc's available to download. My intent is for lightroom to rendor and export the photos the way their lab will print them.
Why bother to really develop the picture to my liking if it is just going to print differently.
I dont use PS and not sure how I can, if at all, utilize the color profiles the lab provides in LR.
Sorry if I am not making sense, any and all help is appreciated from you really smart people:)
Thanks

See http://lagemaat.blogspot.com/2007/12/mildly-lightroom-workflow-for-printing.html
You can now also use the
LR/mogrify plugin to convert to any profile you want. Much quicker than the photoshop route.
Note that there is no reason to do this if you do not hardware calibrate your monitor. Otherwise sending them sRGB is more than good enough. On a Mac, make absolutely sure that you at least software calibrate your monitor. See http://www.computer-darkroom.com/colorsync-display/colorsync_1.htm
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Ruzicka:
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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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