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Exported jpegs lose their embedded profile

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January 28, 2022
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Using Photoshop release 23.1.0 on PC Windows 11 Pro

I have a tif file with ProPhoto RGB colorspace. When I convert it to SRGB the colors remain accurate, but then I export using "quick export" or "export as" and the jpeg image loses its colorspace even though its embedded in the original tiff. I also make sure the export prefferences are set to SRGB . When I reopen the jpeg in Photoshop the colors are way off and the document profile says untagged RGB. If I then convert the colorspace to SRGB to try to fix it, the colors do not correct themselves. I have to go back to the tif file.

However, I have found that when I use the "save for web legacy" option to export, the SRGB color space saved in the jpeg is correct and everything looks right when reopened in Photoshop.

Is this a known bug? or maybe Im doing something wrong!!!

Tom

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NB, colourmanagement

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Agree with others here that using "Quick Export" is a really bad idea - an exported file MUST have an embedded profile or colour management goes out the window - and it seems Quick Export doesn’t do embedded profiles. That's a really poor bit of design from Adobe.

I hope this helps
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BrettN

Community Manager

When using Quick Export, your file will never have an embeded profile, this simply isn't an option.

For Export As, there is an option to Embed Color Profile. If you do not check this option, there will not be profile emeded, even if you use the Conver to sRGB option. With that combination, it will simply convert the color information to be compatible with sRGB but not include the profile. As Stephen mentions, you can then Apply the profile to add it back in. If the colors don't look right when reopening, your Color Settings (in the Edit menu) may have a profile other than sRGB for the Working RGB Profile. The working profile is used when no profile is embeded, and if it is a mismatch to what was used to create the file, the colors will shift. Adobe RGB is a common working profile, which could explain what you are seeing.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Any plans to have that box checked by default? If for no other reason, it would at least match main Photoshop, removing a major confusion point in users out there.

For those of us to whom embedding the profile is important, it's not so critical. We can find the checkbox on our own.

BrettN

Community Manager

Really? That's great! I'm still using Save For Web (partly because of this), so I haven't checked in a while 🙂

We've made a lot of updates to Export As recently. Still have a ways to go to get it to up to Save for Web's feature set, but we'd like to get there eventually.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

You need to assign the profile.

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2014/06/rgb-icc-profile-roulette.html

In this case you know it is sRGB, so there is no need to gamble.

Export As does offer a checkbox for embedding the profile and this is retained in the output file.

That being said, the new Export features are a "work in progress" and you may prefer to continue to use the legacy Save for Web interface.

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