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HSM2022
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April 29, 2025
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Color Management Policies: Missing Profiles: Ask When Opening is Greyed Out

  • April 29, 2025
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I have a question about an important option being greyed out in PS CS6; I am not sure how to make it an active option. The panel for the Edit: Color Settings has a Color Management Profiles section with the option to Ask When Opening for applying a Color Profile to images with Missig Profiles, but it is greyed out. See the image attached below. The red dot shows what I am refering to. This would be an important option to have available, since it would allow me to add a Color Profile to the many images that I import from another DCC that have no embedded Color Profile. As to why it is greyed out, I do not see options that would change its status, except that the closest option would seem to be changing the Color Management Policies: RGB from Off to one of the other options, but those options are also greyed out. How can the Ask When Opening option be made available?

 

Correct answer D Fosse

You have your working RGB set to the display profile. Never do that, the display profile has no business here.

 

Set it to a standard color space like sRGB or Adobe RGB. Then set Policies to "Preserve Embedded Profiles".

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HSM2022Author
Inspiring
April 29, 2025

The image attached below shows the RGB state options greyed out. I read the explainer on the Ask When Opening option, and it says it is available when the relevant source is not set to Off. So, the question now is how do I get the RGB state options to not be greyed out?

D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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April 29, 2025

You have your working RGB set to the display profile. Never do that, the display profile has no business here.

 

Set it to a standard color space like sRGB or Adobe RGB. Then set Policies to "Preserve Embedded Profiles".

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    HSM2022Author
    Inspiring
    April 29, 2025

    Reading the on-line Adobe User Guide, I see it says in the Color Management: Color Settings: Color Working Spaces section that "Working spaces also determine the appearance of colors in untagged documents." So I take that to mean that when the Color Settings panel is set to Monitor Color, the Missing Profiles option, aka for untagged files, is missing because the file has not alternate Color Profile option except to be set to the Monitor Color working space. Actually, come to think of it, I'm surprised that option even exists for any of the other Work Space settings, because it follows natural logic that untagged image files will have no option except to use the currently defined Work Space setting. Thank you for drawing my attention to that and provoking further thought. So, the "problem" is no problem as it turns out.

    I suppose the Photoshop GUI could be updated to exchange "Missing Profile: Ask When Opening" for "Missing Profile: Alert When Opening", because there's no change to be made at the time yet the user might want to know the file's not tagged with a Color Profile.

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