Change in color settings with photoshop beta and photoshop

[Simone Pompei]

Hi, 

I use everyday the current version of Photoshop. I installed the beta version too to try the new ai features.

EVERY time I open the Beta, when i came back to the current version, my Color Setting (spcifically the working color space) changes. I continuosly change them to the right one I use. 

Since I'm a fine art printer, for a distraction in checking the colors I could have seriour damage in the final results.

This is just to check this behaviour. 

Bye

[Barry Rudick]

I noticed the same behavior and uninstalled the beta.

[D Fosse]

Just to clear up one thing: as long as your file has an embedded profile, which every file should always have, the working space doesn't matter. The embedded profile will always override it. The working space is just a default for new documents and missing profiles.

That said, it obviously shouldn't change. Do any of your other preferences revert as well?

And that too said, installing beta software is at your own risk. Something will go wrong - that's why it's a beta. Never install on a production machine. Ever.

[Simone Pompei]

It matters if you have to make some adjustements in the correct work space. I use Adobe RGB as working space and often I convert sRGB files in that space to have more gamut. 

But regardless of why one wants one space over another, I don't understand how installing a beta, would affect a second normal install. I thought they were completely separate.

[D Fosse]

@Simone Pompei 

Yes, and then you just convert that file to Adobe RGB. Your working space still does not matter! It could be anything, and your file is still Adobe RGB, because that's what you converted to.

The embedded document profile will always override the working space.

The working space only matters if the file is untagged, doesn't have an embedded profile at all. Then you assign the correct profile. From that you can convert if so desired.

[Simone Pompei]

No, it doesn't work like that.

In my settings i use Adobe RGB as a working space. And i set to convert to that working space as a default (or at least ask me). 

When i open a file in another working space it will ask me if i wanna convert to working space or not. 

I usually convert it.

The embedded profile NEVER override my working space, because that's what i set.

[D Fosse]

OK. That's not a setting I would recommend, since profile conversions are potentially very destructive and should be watched on a case by case basis. Gamut clipping will just proceed and not be reversible once the file is opened.

Obviously going from sRGB to Adobe RGB is safe - but if you get a ProPhoto file it can be permanently ruined.

"Preserve Embedded Profiles" is the default setting and the way Photoshop is designed to work in a modern workflow. I generally advise everyone to not change that setting under any circumstances.

[Simone Pompei]

Sure, you have to do what you are most comfortable with.

However this thread is just to report a bug.