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Ton Frederiks
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November 17, 2025
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Long list of video? profiles in the printer profiles list in Photoshop

  • November 17, 2025
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In Photoshop, when I select Photoshop Manages Colors in the Print dialog, I see a long list with these Arri, Aces and  Rec ICC profiles (like ARRI LogC3) In the Printer Profile list in the Photoshop Print Settings dialog. How did they get there? Where can I find them on my Mac, they aren’t printer profiles and I do not see them in the usual places.

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    NB, colourmanagement
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    November 18, 2025

    Hi @Ton Frederiks I see those too, strange isn't it, hard to know where the came from - can you do a search for invisible files?
    I searched with Colorthink Pro and found a bunch of REC variants in both the system colorsync folder and the user one. ACES too

    ty yo mayeb bot have CT Pro so - Find The Mac "Find Any File" app is ueaful and finds a bunch of ACES ones too ( I searched for 'ACES' with suffix 'icc')

    And "REC":

     

    ARRI (looks like Adobe installed that one) 

    here are some that Adobe have installed:

    Strangely. "Arri_Look" has a strange internal description too (it's usually the profile name)

     

    I'm gonna leave em alone and put it down to "who knows who placed them and why, and is it worth the time to find out". 

    I hope this helps

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    Ton Frederiks
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    November 18, 2025

    @NB, colourmanagement  Found most of them using Bridge

    Computer > Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Color > MPProfiles

    Strange that they turn up in a print dialog.

    According to this thread they seem to be installed by the Video apps like After Effects and Premiere.

    I thought that uninstalling them would remove them, but Adobe apps are not very good at cleaning up.

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-do-i-delete-adobe-s-printer-profiles/m-p/12063822

     

    NB, colourmanagement
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    November 18, 2025

    @Ton Frederiks @Yeah, you'd think that but I didn't install the video apps. Might be to do with image processing (raw). 

    neil B