Color Management

Fellow PS Users,I do a lot of printing from PS. have been for a couple of decades. Monitor Calibrated. I use the paper profiles. Epson Papers on Epson R2880.After I have upgraded to PS 2026 from 2025, it seems that my  images have turn out as cold color prints. I have to add a lot of warmth to the image to barely get close.  If I take the oriingal image and print it thru Lightroom Classic, it is perfect without any changes. Same paper, Same printer, Same monitorWhat happened during the upgrade to 2026 that would have caused a change like this? What suggestions do you have to help me? ThxMG

In Photoshop, when I select Photoshop Manages Colors in the Print dialog, I see a long list with these Arri, Aces and  Rec ICC profiles (like ARRI LogC3) In the Printer Profile list in the Photoshop Print Settings dialog. How did they get there? Where can I find them on my Mac, they aren’t printer profiles and I do not see them in the usual places.

Message when I try to print:"An error occurred while getting the printer's and the system's default color profile"iMac 2023, Tahoe, Epson Stylus Photo 1500w, TIFF

Hi everyone, I'm currently preparing a bunch of book illustrations for print. The printing shop gave me the right ICC-Profiles, which I have converted my art to, and then exported with this profile embedded. I have done this with my usual programme, Clip Studio Paint.Then I wanted to make sure the images look right when printed - I expect the print shop will be using Photoshop - so I downloaded the trial version of Photoshop and opened my file there. To my surprise, it looked off - too saturated and bright. It loses depth in the dark areas.Everywhere else - including Windows Photo Viewer, IrfanView etc. - it looks just as in my original graphic programme. It's only Photoshop that looks off. I've tried everything, made sure the colour settings were proper, that it opened with the embedded profile, etc. I've looked for similar posts on the Adobe forums or elsewhere online, and the prevalent statement seems to be "Photoshop is the only colour managed programme, so what that show

The basic printer profiles seem to be missing when I am trying to print to the Epson SC-p800. I selected Photoshop controls printing. Only a few paper profiles show up. The basic ones such as Premium Luster, Glossy, etc. don't show up only 3 for legacy papers. The luster one was there only a few weeks ago (before the holidays - I used it). Last night I uninstalled the printer and reinstalled the driver software but that did not fix the problem.

I am trying to figure out a way to assign a custom DNG profile by way of an action in photoshop so that I can save it as a Droplet.  The issue I am running into is that the only way to use custom DNG profiles is by opening a new raw file, using the Camera Raw editor to assign the profile, and then opening the image in photoshop.  I can record this through use of an action, but it records it as an "open" command and locks it into opening that one specific file, so when I try to create a droplet with this action, regardless of what image I drag onto the droplet it just opens the original source file that I created the action with.  I also looked into creating an action with the Camera Raw Filter, but the Camera Raw Filter does not allow you to assign custom DNG profiles to your image since they are already rendered and inside photoshop.   Is there a way to acheive this? 

Hi everyone,   Apologies if the answer to my question has already been posted somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it. I'm learning how to use Photoshop CC 2015. I'm currently having a hard time trying to learn how to apply a custom made ICC profile to multiple images in one go. I can apply the color profile to them one at a time, with no problem, but cannot for the life of me work out how to apply the same profile to a batch of images, without doing them one at a time.   Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone, I want to add an .icc color profile to the list of available color profiles. I have installed the .icc file in Windows C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color, restarted Illustrator but my .icc does not appear in the list. can anyone help me?

Hi,I've been writing a Colour swatch tool (in excel! hell yeah!) which allows me to pick a bunch of colours, generate complimentary colours from them, blend between 2 colours in a set number of steps and a whole bunch of other cool stuff, and then output this as a photoshop or illustrator swatch file.As part of this tool I want to be able to covert the rgb values to cmyk. There is very little information on this on the web and what there is is fairly inaccurate.For example,RGB:50,128,128Converts to CMYK 61,0,0,50 (%) using the formula found at easyrgb.com (this formula is the most prevalent one on the web/web forums)Photoshop converts these RGB values as CMYK: 80,33,48,8 (%)While these two colour values are *similar* the ones generated by the easyrgb formulas are nowhere near the photoshop values.See? stupid useless formulas. (I am aware of the differences and overlap of the two gamuts)Whilst I know that the conversion done in photoshop is done using ICC templates, and that often these

Trying to understand why the photos i process from RAW in Lightroom Classic & Photoshop look great on my (Spyder calibrated) monitor and Mac Book look washed out and devoid of colour when i upload and print using Snapfish and Photobox in the UK? I have tried looking for answers online but have not been successful at fiding a solution. Any help for a non tech savy amateur photographer would be greatly appreciated.

As a long time user of Colornavigator 6, which I always thought was a truly brilliant piece of software, I just built a new machine at work (I'm an art museum photographer) and decided this was a good time to upgrade to version 7. I have a CG246/CX240 pair at work, and a CG2730 at home. Both on Win 10 pro systems. I had it installed for precisely two days before I gave up, uninstalled it and reinstalled 6. Colornavigator 7 is easily the most unintuitive if not counter-intuitive calibrator I have ever used. What were they thinking? I had to RTFM not once, but three times before I discovered that it was, in fact, still possible to create your own calibration targets. You'd be forgiven for concluding it's no longer possible, so deeply is it buried inside nonsensical, ill-labeled submenus. This used to be right up front - as it should be, it's a core function and the reason you're using a calibrator in the first place. I only had the CG246 hooked up for this. I managed to make on

I need to convert an sRGB photo to Adobe RGB.  How do I do that?  I have made a lot of edits, and tried to print, and the print is too brown.  I used sepia toning.  Do I need to convert it?Thank you! Desmeralda

Hello, Does anyone know if there is guidance or technical doc out there on how to successfully reapply Photoshop's HDR color space when the HDR file is taken to another program with no color management workflow? For context, I typically use TIFs in this use case scenario for astrophotography programs that are lagging behind in color management.  I'm working with TIFs with HDR Rec 2020 color space in 16-bit, with maximum compitatbility checked, the exif color space is rec2020.icc (linear rec2020 if 32-bit HDR color space used). However, what the best way to resave in the HDR color space and to resave as a HDR file? Any insight would be appreciated. My current thesis is that one has to change the file handling on photoshop to open all tiffs, then open the file, then export with a HDR color space and save a new file to accomplish this goal. 

With the recent announcement that Adobe won't be distributing any Pantone palettes after March of this year, it is making me nervous. My company won't allow me to install non-approved software (i.e. the Pantone Connect extension) onto my computer, so I won't be able to try it out ahead of time.  I read the detailed instructions on getting Pantone colors into your AI/PSD/INDD files posted in this thread: https://community.adobe.com/t5/color-management-discussions/pantone-colours-and-cc-libraries/m-p/11385408 As a creative, this process is onerous at best. Is it the same with the paid version of the software?  Does anyone know if existing palettes will be wiped when software is updated? Are there any best practices that might be implemented to ease the transition? Any advice, anyone? Thanks.

hey all,I am designing something for a CD cover that is going to be printed at a print shop, They say they want their images in CMYK and prefer it in a PDF or highest quality JPEG....So I have been working in CMYK, everything looks fine in photoshop, but when I save out to a JPG the whole thing gets dark and colours get horribly over saturated. here you can see the image on the left is what happens when I save out directly from my CMYK file in photoshop. there is a big loss in detail in the darker areas and colours are over saturated. the image on the right is what I get if I convert to mode>RGB and then save the JPG. .. . .this is what I want it to look like....my problem is the print shop requests the image in CMYK, but I want them to print like it looks in the RGB versionany help would be greatfully appreciated! Thankyou!also here are the actual .jpegs as saved from photoshopthe CMYK version:and the RGB version:edit: I don't know too much about colour profiles, and the print shop

I upgraded PS Beta to V25.0.0 and tried using Generative Fill - but the action could not be completed and I received an error message "Could not complete your request because the ICC profile is invalid."Using  MAC OS  Ventura 13.4.1  Thanks ! Hanani

Has the 27 spot color limitation been resolved on the latest Adobe CC versions? In the past anything over 27 colors would automatically be assigned CMYK values and not hold. 

Should I be using the Photography (P3-D65) profile on my Studio Display for processing in lightroom? If not which?I'd think that for photos I want to print I should be editing using the best profile for editing and that it be complementary to the color profile I use in Lightroom/Photoshop.I do not currently have the ability to calibrate my monitor.Any suggestions on the profiles I should be using? 

Hi everyone, I was given a .icc profile from my printer and was told to convert to this profile after I'd finished my editing in RGB mode. I was also given the following information: General Specs for newsprint: Colour should be CMYK. When converting RGB to CMYK, use the following Photoshop settings: Ink Colour: Newsprint Dot Gain: 30% Separation Type: GCR Black generation: Light Total Ink Limit: 260% UCA: 10% I don't understand the above settings as I thought that all that information was captured in the .icc profile that I was supplied. This is my first experience in a colour managed workflow so I may be getting a bit confused. If the above settings are not in the .icc profile then where do I set them in Photoshop? Would really appreciate any advice.

Currently editing photos on Lightroom and Photoshop (all set to sRGB) on an M2 Macbook Air 2022.Photos look dynamic and colorful on the laptop, but as soon as I transfer to phone (iPhone 11 Pro) either via airdrop or lightroom mobile, the images become quite dull, washed out, low contrast.  I've tried all sorts of exports and transfer methods, but with no real change in the quality. I've changed photo and display settings within the phone with no change either (true tone, night shift, etc.) Is this just due to the display capabilities on the new device? Do I really need to edit elsewhere in order to edit in a way that reflects how the images will look on most devices that people view content on?Looking for a solution to have the images I edit on my laptop look identical when I transfer them to a phone.

Hi! So I am trying to install ISO coated v2 eci on a mac os high sierra. I have copied it into:- /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color Profiles- /Library/ColorSync/Profiles But when I go to Color Sync or try to change my settings directly from illustrator, the ICC profile isn't available.  I have already changed my permission settings fromhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203538 But the issue persists, I really don't know what to do, please help!!!

Posting here as no more generic place to post in these forums and hoping Adobe folks will have a "correct" answer.  I have googled until fingers bled and seems no one know for sure THIS answer. Split maybe 50/50. Please do not guess or if you must, mark your answer as a guess. In color manging Windows 10, I want to know:1. What does this setting do?2. What should it be selected to?   a. The default sRGB, or...   b. The same as the selected ICM on the first page - for the monitor profile.From the first page of settings: Thanks!

Recently I am having problems with Color Space in Both PS and Bridge.  The Meta data on my file shows Color space being sRGB IEC31966-2.1   Yet if I choose the same working color space in PS the colors all come out Wrong !  All other apps show correct colors when I open the same file.   Only if I select View-Proof Setup-Monitor, then colors become correct...This is even a problem when Working Color space is the same as what is indicated in the Meta data.  I suspect there is a BUG in PS or Bridge or both..?  Can someone verify this ?

We defined a wide-ranging RGB/HEX color palette for a brand that is moving towards being more digital-first. However, since it still produces a range of printed products, we now need to develop matching PMS and CMYK values.It’s not an ideal way to start with the broadest gamut space, but that’s where we are now. The goal is to have a consistent appearance across the board.The challenge is that the RGB/HEX (on-screen) palette is already defined with bright, clean colors; some may be hard to match in print (narrower gamut).Compromises will be necessary. I’ll focus on the primary brand colors and may skip some darker or lighter shades for the PMS/CMYK palette. There are variables and factors like the printing process and paper quality beyond our control as we work with different vendors — we may not be able to do test printing in most cases. My question is:What is the best way to get PMS/CMYK (coated and uncoated) values consistent with the already defined RGB/HEX values? H