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February 3, 2025
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Image layer too dulled

  • February 3, 2025
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I am creating an ad for Facebook, and one of the images (touchscreen alarm panel) in it is too dulled despite being from a high resolution image from the manafacturer.  See the attachment below.

 

How can I make that dulled layer pop (make it alive)?

 

 

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Per Berntsen
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Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 3, 2025

My guess is that the image you received from the manufacturer was created in the ProPhoto color space without the profile embedded, or you exported it without checking Convert to sRGB and Embed profile.

Web browsers will assign the sRGB profile to images with no embedded profile (untagged).

If the image was created in ProPhoto (or Adobe RGB), it will display with wrong colors because sRGB is the wrong profile.

When exporting, always check Convert to sRGB and Embed profile.

 

I opened your screenshot in Photoshop, and it had Adobe RGB embedded. probably because you use Adobe RGB as a monitor profile.

I assigned the ProPhoto profile, which changed the appearance to this:

 

 

 

In the future, please do not attach images, use the Insert Photos button in the toolbar to embed them in your posts.

 

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    SSL-ADTAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 3, 2025

    Hi Per,

     

    Well my ad uses RGB color mode at 8 bits. The image I downloaded from the manufacturer shows as RBG too when I open it with Photoshop. Not sure why are you talking about exporting. Find the downloaded file in the attachment.

     

     

     

    -Ron

    Per Berntsen
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    Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2025

    The image is untagged – it does not have an embedded profile.

    So you have to assign the profile that seems to be correct, my guess is that it's Adobe RGB, but you can try sRGB and ProPhoto as well. (Edit > Assign profile)

    If you set the status bar to Document profile you can see at a glance what color space the image is in.

    You can also see this in the Info panel, if enabled in the panel options.

     

    RGB is a color mode – meaning that the image has three channels – red, green and blue.

    sRGB, Adobe RGB and ProPhoto are color profiles (or spaces), that describe how the colors in the image should be displayed.

     

    When you open an image in Photoshop, the colors will be converted from the document profile to the monitor profile.

    This is the basis of color management.

    If the image is untagged, no color conversion will take place – and the image will display with wrong colors.

     

     

     

     

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