Assign Profile Without Changing Numbers (Values)?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 27, 2025
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Dear Community,

Is there a way to assign a profile to a given image without changing anything at all in the image? (Meaning: Pretending it is this and that profile but no more than that?)

Thanks!

macOS

D Fosse

Community Expert

Assign Profile does not change any numbers. That's the whole point.

And because no numbers are changed, but those numbers now refer to a wholly different coordinate system, the appearance of the image changes.

Convert to Profile recalculates all numbers into the new color space, the new coordinate system, so that appearance is preserved.

You can't move from one color space to another and "pretend" the numbers mean the same when they just don't.

Without color management and icc profiles, different color spaces would be impossible. There could only be one color space that we all needed to use all the time.

Lavitas MacutisAuthor

Inspiring

Yes, you are absolutely right, I'm sorry, I was fooled by the difference in appearance. I didn't suppose it would change unless I switch to proof view. But it does. Thanks so much for your patient and kind replies!

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rudo123

Inspiring

Menu Edit -> Assign Profile...

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey, @Lavitas Macutis. Welcome to the Photoshop Community.

You can add a comment to one of the fields in the Metadata from the FFile File Info panel. If the files are yet to be processed in Photoshop, you can use Notes from Windows> Notes in Photoshop to leave written notes.

Let me know if this helps. Thanks!
Sameer K

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