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Hi

its not helping this situation that Adobe do not support saving a PNG file with an ICC profile embedded, so, unless you're already working with sRGB - I suggest you

1: convert your image to sRGB,

2: save a JPG file with sRGB embedded

3: ideally only view that image in applications that support colour management.

sRGB is the defaslt for web use. 

Also IF you have a screen that’s close to sRGB (many are close but few exactly sRGB) then, even in non colour managed apps like Windows Photos and some web browsers, an sRGB file has a chance of looking OK.

For serious image viewing you need colour management as is implemented in Adobe's applications. 

 

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct", so that others who have similar issues can see the solution

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer

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NB, colourmanagement
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July 11, 2020

Moved to the Color Management Board.

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer

D Fosse
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July 11, 2020

I thought we had all agreed to not move threads?

NB, colourmanagement
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July 12, 2020

Silvia has suggested that’s the way to make use of the community. She was also discussing the possibility of leaving a placeholder to tell browsers it had moved, a point I raised after you suggested it. 

conversation is here: 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/back-room/your-new-community-feedback-tracker/td-p/10973904?page=1

NB

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July 11, 2020

Hi

its not helping this situation that Adobe do not support saving a PNG file with an ICC profile embedded, so, unless you're already working with sRGB - I suggest you

1: convert your image to sRGB,

2: save a JPG file with sRGB embedded

3: ideally only view that image in applications that support colour management.

sRGB is the defaslt for web use. 

Also IF you have a screen that’s close to sRGB (many are close but few exactly sRGB) then, even in non colour managed apps like Windows Photos and some web browsers, an sRGB file has a chance of looking OK.

For serious image viewing you need colour management as is implemented in Adobe's applications. 

 

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct", so that others who have similar issues can see the solution

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer

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rob day
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July 12, 2020

its not helping this situation that Adobe do not support saving a PNG file with an ICC profile embedded

 

Save As doesn’t, but Export or Save for Web does.

 

D Fosse
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July 10, 2020

You need to view the exported file in an image viewer that actually supports color management. Not all do.

 

You also need to embed the color profile.

 

Nothing "changes" in the file, it is just not displayed correctly in a non-color managed viewer.

July 10, 2020

There are some change I can do to the image that can be shown for a non-color managed viewer and have the same effect of the first image?

 

I'm not super expert in photoshop.

D Fosse
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July 10, 2020

Without color management, you have no control over anything. How it looks on your screen is irrelevant because it will look completely different on any other screen.

 

That is the problem that color management was invented to solve. And it does.