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"Use Proof Setup" option greyed out in Color section of the Save File dialogue box

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April 23, 2025
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While configuring PhotoShop (PS) so that it reproduces the same colors on the computer screen for images that I import from another DCC app, I noticed that, while it was possible to get the correct colors by chaning the settings in View: Proof Setup: Monitor RGB, this only affected the PS workspace and did not save the color profile with the image when saving out of PS. So then I noticed that the Save File dialogue box has a Color section with the option to Use Proof Setup, but it is always greyed out no matter which file type the image is saved to or which options are checked/unchecked in the Save dialogue box. Why is the Use Proof Setup always greyed out in the Save File dialogue box? How can one get it to be a selectable option? Or, what is some other way that one can get the Proof Setup color profile to save with the image?

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Correct answer HSM2022

EPS and PDF, thanks. Those were overlooked somehow when I tried all the file types. As for assigning a Color Profile to image file formats in general for both working and saving, I've now found that, instead of setting a Color Profile in View: Proof Setup: Color Profile, the Color Profile can be set in Edit: Color Settings, Edit: Assign Profile and Edit: Convert to Profile. I have all of those set to Monitor RGB and it works quite well now. Thanks again for the help.

BrettN

Community Manager

Whether or not the settings at the bottom of the Save dialog will be grayed out depends on the file format selected and the content of the file.

Color: Use Proof Setup is a print specific command and is only compatible with print specific file formats. For Photoshop, there are only two for which this option is availible: EPS and PDF.

It is not available for other formats regardless of what is in your file.

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EPS and PDF, thanks. Those were overlooked somehow when I tried all the file types. As for assigning a Color Profile to image file formats in general for both working and saving, I've now found that, instead of setting a Color Profile in View: Proof Setup: Color Profile, the Color Profile can be set in Edit: Color Settings, Edit: Assign Profile and Edit: Convert to Profile. I have all of those set to Monitor RGB and it works quite well now. Thanks again for the help.

BrettN

Community Manager

Proofing is for when you want to see what a file might look like on another device, mainly a printer. It doesn't actually change the file, in the same way that zooming in with the maginifying glass tool doesn't change the file. It just gives you a different perspective, which is why most formats don't allow you to save this setting into the file.

Color Settings lets you choose the default expected profile for images in Photoshop, what to do when you open a file which doesn't match the expected profile, and what default profile you apply to new images.

Assign Profile arbitrarily (re)places profiles on images. This can cause the colors of a document to change if the profile is not compatible with how the file was created. You generally don't want to use this command unless you know the profile on the document is incorrect and you want to correct it, or if the document currently doesn't have an attached profile.

Convert to Profile will change the color information in a file to try to look the same after changing the attached profile of an image. This is preferable over Assign Profile, as it should maintain accuracy better.

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Aleke

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Hi @HSM2022!

Could you share a bit more detail? What version of Photoshop and operating system are you using? If possible, could you also provide a screenshot of the save dialog where you're seeing the "Use Proof Setup" option?

Thanks a bunch!

Alek

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This is the case in CS 6. Maybe it's been addressed in an update since then. Here's a screen shot of the Save File dialogue box. The parameter in question is marked in red and greyed out. Is it ever not greyed out? [url=https://ibb.co/RkhYHJYT][img]https://i.ibb.co/RkhYHJYT/PS-Use-Proof-Setup.jpg[/img][/url]

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