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bellevue scott
bellevue scott
Inspiring
February 20, 2019
Question

Why does the default profile change in PS with every update?

  • February 20, 2019
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This has been a long time gripe of mine, but for the love of God, Adobe, stop switching my default profile to sRGB with every single update. I can't believe that such a professional program changes my default working profile with every update.

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    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    February 20, 2019

    Do you migrate your presets? I would thin. your Color settings would be migrated. I have sets I load from Color settings

    I also copy preferences between versions Including Color Settings....

    JJMack
      bellevue scott
      bellevue scottAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 21, 2019

      No, I've never done this. The problem is that I've got Creative Cloud CC that resides on 5 computers in the office, and the cloud is set to stay up to day. So it's hard to know when an update has happened, especially on five computers.

      If Adobe expects or wants professionals to use the CC version and stay up to date, then they honestly need to be better at respecting people's working environment. This should be part of their update procedure, because if users have to go in every morning and check that there has been updates and then migrate their working environment, then really the notion of allowing the apps to update themselves is completely meaningless.

      D Fosse
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      D FosseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 20, 2019

      Actually it doesn't matter all that much. It's just a fallback default for missing profile - in which case you'll want to make an informed decision anyway - or for new blank documents. In which case ditto.

      All your existing embedded profiles are still there and will be handled as they always were.

      The absolutely best and safest way to keep track of your profiles, is to set the notification area bottom left of the image window. This way you know at a glance what color space the document is in:

      bellevue scott
      bellevue scottAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 20, 2019

      It does matter, because it's converting documents to the default profile, so it's taking RGB 1998 docs and saving them as sRGB if I'm not very careful, and some of my staff aren't as versed as I am, so I'm constantly checking for this.

      But I do appreciate your answer. I do look at the color space and I have it in the info pallet. But still Adobe, no, you don't change people's personal parameters with each update. That's not how it should be done.

      D Fosse
      Community Expert
      D FosseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 20, 2019

      I would strongly advise against having your policies set to "Convert to working RGB". That's a bomb waiting to go off whether the working spaces are changed or not.

      The only safe policy is "Preserve Embedded Profiles". This is the default, and it's the default for very good reasons. It's the way Photoshop is designed to work.

      IMHO this should be hardwired and the other two options just removed - like for instance Lightroom works. They are only there for legacy reasons. In any case you need to be absolutely clear on what happens when automatically converting. It can easily clip data irreversibly, and there's no way to get it back.

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