Long list of video? profiles in the printer profiles list in Photoshop

Report · Nov 17, 2025

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.

Report · Nov 18, 2025

Hi @Ton Frederiks I see those too, strange isn't it, hard to know where the came from - can you do a search for invisible files?
I searched with Colorthink Pro and found a bunch of REC variants in both the system colorsync folder and the user one. ACES too

ty yo mayeb bot have CT Pro so - Find The Mac "Find Any File" app is ueaful and finds a bunch of ACES ones too ( I searched for 'ACES' with suffix 'icc')

And "REC":

ARRI (looks like Adobe installed that one)

here are some that Adobe have installed:

Strangely. "Arri_Look" has a strange internal description too (it's usually the profile name)

I'm gonna leave em alone and put it down to "who knows who placed them and why, and is it worth the time to find out".

I hope this helps

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In Response To NB, colourmanagement · Nov 18, 2025

@NB, colourmanagement Found most of them using Bridge

Computer > Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Color > MPProfiles

Strange that they turn up in a print dialog.

According to this thread they seem to be installed by the Video apps like After Effects and Premiere.

I thought that uninstalling them would remove them, but Adobe apps are not very good at cleaning up.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-do-i-delete-adobe-s-printer-profi...

In Response To Ton Frederiks · Nov 18, 2025

@Ton Frederiks @Yeah, you'd think that but I didn't install the video apps. Might be to do with image processing (raw).

neil B

In Response To NB, colourmanagement · Nov 18, 2025

No, they have nothing to do with camera raw files. Adobe raw profiles are a different format than ICC profiles. The ICC profiles we’re seeing in the Print menu are strictly video-based and Ton found them in exactly the same place I did in a reply I posted in the thread linked above:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-do-i-delete-adobe-s-printer-profi...

They are video-based because of the names they reference.

ACES stands for Academy Color Encoding System, a professional color standard coordinated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (as in “Academy Awards”).

ARRI is a professional digital cinema camera. If you watch a lot of TV or movies, you’ve seen footage shot on Arri cameras. Similarly, the profiles for Canon Cinema, Sony, and Panasonic are cinema camera color profiles. For some cameras you see multiple profiles listed because when editing video, you can choose an input profile to match how you set the camera (for example, the profile “ARRI LogC3 Wide Color Gamut - EI1280”). But naturally, none of this has anything to do with printing, so in Photoshop we have to ignore all of those profiles.

For example, the picture below shows where those profiles can turn up in Premiere (on the right).

Also, in my linked reply above I said these video profiles don’t turn up in the Print dialog boxes in InDesign and Illustrator, but I re-checked and some (not all) actually do appear there too. The ACES profile appears, probably because that profile is stored at /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ACESCG Linear.icc .

But InDesign and Illustrator appear to correctly exclude the video-related input profiles from the menu.

In Response To Conrad_C · Nov 18, 2025

Yes, Conrad, I think it is a Photoshop problem. Lightroom does not show them in the Print section, but allows you to add them, it sees them as Display profiles. Unchecking the "Include Display Profiles" and they disappear.

In Response To Ton Frederiks · Nov 19, 2025

@Ton Frederiks "Yes, Conrad, I think it is a Photoshop problem."

yeah, I'd say that’s right, because they are not tagged printer profiles

Where they came from is likely Adobe, for the most part. I did find a LOT using Find Any File

I got the impression that initially you were having trouble locating them.

@Conrad_C "No, they have nothing to do with camera raw files. "

Yeah it was the ARRI-look profile that got me thinking about that as a possibility for why Adobe are adding them in a Photoshop installation.

What I meant was that MAYBE camera raw users MIGHT want to set these as output (image) icc profiles to later import the same image files into a video workflow.