Photoshop 2025 (MacOS 15.2) Color Settings preferences not saved?

[frmorel]

Hello,

Every time I start Photoshop 2025, my previous color management choices have been reset to their defaults and I have to go back to Edit > Color Settings to load a .csf file corresponding to my settings.
I also want Photoshop to warn me if the profile of the opened document doesn't match, but it's set to "Keep Embedded Profiles" by default.
Is there a preference I've set wrong or is my Photoshop 2025 installation corrupted? Or is it a permissions issue under Mac Sequoia 15.2?

Thanks for your help.

[D Fosse]

warn me if the profile of the opened document doesn't match, but it's set to "Keep Embedded Profiles" by default.

By @frmorel

Obviously your color settings should stick, and I don't know why they don't. Maybe permissions in your user account.

However:

"Preserve Embedded Profiles" is the way color management is intended to work. I would strongly advise against ever changing that setting. It will get you in trouble sooner or later.

With this setting, the embedded document profile will always override your working space. Again, this is how it should work and how it is designed to work.

It doesn't matter if the embedded profile doesn't match the working space. The working space isn't important. This warning can just be disabled, it tells you nothing useful.

Photoshop's color settings are full of legacy options from a time when color management wasn't widely implemented. These options are kept there because there's always users somewhere relying on old workflows.

[frmorel · Accepted solution]

I found the solution: my problem came from the synchronization with Bridge - whose "Colors" preferences were incorrectly set.
I was not precise enough in my initial post: what interests me is to have a warning if the opened document does not have a profile, or a strange profile. By default, the "warn me" checkbox was not checked (but now everything works correctly).

[NB, colourmanagement]

@frmorel you'll need to check "profile mismatches" and: missing profiles" in the "ask when opening" section of Photoshop's color settings 

see below:

I hope this helps

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[frmorel]

Yes, it was these essential checkboxes that interested me but they were always unchecked by default before I changed the settings in Bridge (Edit > Color settings).

[NB, colourmanagement]

@frmorel I see you have marked your own response as "correct answer"

- please could you undo that and mark the actual answer that was correct as 'correct', this way others with a similar issue can see the solution easily. 

neil B

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

I found the solution: my problem came from the synchronization with Bridge

By @frmorel

As I started to read this thread I was getting ready to comment about setting this in Adobe Bridge, which will set the color settings for Adobe apps. 

In the apps, watch for a symbol that looks like one of the two below. The one on the left means the settings are synchronized; the one on the right means that application is using different settings.

See these links for details:

• https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/keeping-colors-consistent.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/keeping-colors-consistent.html#synchronize_color_settings_acro...

Thanks for letting us know you found the solution. 😊 I've marked your answer Correct.

Jane

[D Fosse]

I still want to insist that there is no need for the embedded profile to match the working space. The embedded profile will override the working space. That warning can just be disabled. It's just distracting and tells you nothing useful.

There is also no particular need to synchronize color settings. CMYK requirements may differ: you may want "preserve embedded profiles" in Photoshop, but "preserve numbers" in Illustrator.