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Brent Guiliano
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August 8, 2024
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Trouble with ICC color profiles on LR Classic 13.4

  • August 8, 2024
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Hi, 

I have LR Classic 13.4 running on my mac (running 14.6.1) 
I am trying to install a few ICC profile files from an online printing store.

I have tried placing them in mutliple folders (macHD/library/colorsync/profiles) and in application support/adobe/color/profiles/recommended) 

reguardless of the location, when soft proofing in LR, when i choose 'other' i can not see the downloaded icc files/profiles - i can see others that are in the folders listed above though - the ones that came with the mac and LR.

is there some setting i am missing to be able to view the ones i've downloaded?

Or am i missing the proper folder location?

 

thanks

 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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August 9, 2024

Are these profiles perhaps CMYK profiles? Lightroom Classic only supports RGB based profiles.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Brent GuilianoAuthor
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August 9, 2024

I believe they are RGB - they are from Bay Photo - fineart epson hot press bright white and moab entrada bright rag

Conrad_C
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Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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August 9, 2024

Ok, those details are actually the key. I decided to go to the Bay Photo profile web page, download the profiles myself and try to load them, but before I even installed them I noticed the little asterisks on some of the profile names, and scrolled down to find out what the asterisk means. And guess what: It means…

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*CMYK profile, not supported by Adobe Lightroom. All other image editing programs (including Photoshop) will support these profiles.

 

 

    Conrad_C
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    Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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    August 8, 2024

    Do the profiles load in other color-managed applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, or do they not load in any application?

     

    Do you happen to know if the profiles are RGB or CMYK?

    If the profiles are CMYK, Lightroom Classic won’t load them (but Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign will).

     

    Are the profiles listed in Apple ColorSync Utility in its Profiles tab? If they do, then there is nothing wrong with where you put them.

     

    Side note: In recent years Apple has been recommending that profiles go in the user level ColorSync folder when practical:

    /Users/[username]/Library/ColorSync/Profiles

    However, that shouldn’t affect this because profiles should also load from the two locations you listed.

    My guess is if a profile won’t load from the other two folders, it probably won’t load from the user profiles folder.

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    Brent GuilianoAuthor
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    August 9, 2024

    Thanks -  i havent tried in PS and i believe they are RGB

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
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    August 8, 2024

     

    macHD/library/colorsync/profiles

     

    hmm, that should have been the location.

     

    see:

    https://www.colourmanagement.net/advice/where-are-my-icc-profiles

    and:

    https://www.redrivercatalog.com/profiles/how_to_install_ICC_color_profiles_mac_apple.html

     

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    Brent GuilianoAuthor
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    August 9, 2024

    Thanks - i will take a look

     

    MassC
    MassC
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    August 8, 2024

    Have you tired restarting LrC and your computer?  It seems like you placed the files in the right location. ^CM

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    Brent GuilianoAuthor
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    August 8, 2024

    yup -restarted both LR and the computer multiple times 

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