Saving With Correct ICC in Photoshop

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March 12, 2024
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ponThis is a bit of a new one as we have noticed this on multiple computers in our group. We are saving Photoshop files in RGB Mode for Digital Print. The way the Color Management is setup- the Photoshop files were supposed to be RGB, placed into Illustrator CMYK on our dielines/ vectir files and then output using a OEM supplied PDF Output for our printer. Things have been all setup, color management was great, and then all of the sudden, boom, our photos started coming out awful.

We just noticed that when we save in Photoshop, there is no longer an ICC Checkbox for AdobeRGB, it now says "sRGB..." Everything only works when Adobe RGB is used- it was always there, automatically, and poof, it gone. As you can see from my attachments, the ICC is in the folder it should be, everything is set in its place- just that one issue of the sRGB showing up instead of AdobeRGB. We dont know why this changed, but, any help on getting it back?

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NB, colourmanagement

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@Chris 5CAB "We just noticed that when we save in Photoshop, there is no longer an ICC Checkbox for AdobeRGB, it now says "sRGB..." Everything only works when Adobe RGB is used"

The Save dialog ONLY offers the to embed the actual ICC profile of the file (Adobe call it a document), if your file IS Adobe RGB then that will be offered. In the case you mention the file MUST be sRGB as that’s the embed option.

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Per Berntsen

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There are no options in the Save dialog to save with any other profile than the embedded one.

You can use Edit > Convert to profile to convert to Adobe RGB, but colors will be limited to the sRGB gamut, so it's much better to have the correct profile embedded from the start.