'icc color profile isn't valid' in processing an older raw file. It will open the image, but in b&W

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March 12, 2024
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I was going back through some files. I was reprocessing some through the newer tools in Photoshop. Suddenly it decided that my ICC color profile wasn't valid. None of the changes I tried made any difference. It simply dedcided not to open these in color. The current year I was looking at was 2006, but I was going to go through a number of years. It's pointless if I can't fix them. Is there anything I can change or install to make the program recognize them?

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NB, colourmanagement

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@earlenef16120901 as @D Fosse wrote if you have as RAW file it doesn’t have an embedded ICC profile - it's RAW and yet to be processed to RGB. Can you open your file in camera raw and process from there?

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D Fosse

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There is no icc profile in a raw file, until ACR encodes the data into one when sending the file to Photoshop. That's the last step in the ACR pipeline.

What profile have you set in ACR's workflow options? That's the "link" at the bottom of the ACR window, just below the main image. Take a screenshot and post it here.

It has probably been set to monochrome treatment in ACR:

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