This morning Photoshop decided that nothing can be placed in images because they "have an input-only color profile." This warning applies to ALL images I open, whether they are new or old, taken by my camera or someone else's, .jpgs or .psd files.
My settings say I'm in RGB mode, eight bits per channel. My color profile says Working Color Profile sRGB. So I don't understand what could be wrong. It was working fine last night. This just happened this morning.
Restarting Photoshop and the computer didn't help. I updated to 24.7.4, but that didn't help. I'm on Mac OS Ventura 13.6.6.
My monitor color profile is iMac. I'm using the built-in display.
When it comes to embedded document profile, this is interesting. I assume you mean the color profile of the image I'm working on. While I was waiting for an answer I tried a hack I found: Flattening the image. I did this to a new .psd file and was able add images to it. THAT embedded profile says sRGB IE6 1966-2.1. All other .jpgs, whether new or old, say "Apple Wide Color Sharing." And if I make them into .psd files, it still says that. But if I've made .psd files BEFORE THIS MORNING, they say some version of sRGB.
That's the information I'm reporting. I've done some more investigation, and anything that was imported by downloading it from my iphone to Photos on my Mac (hard wired,) and then exported from Photos to a folder on my Mac, is in the Apple Wide Color Sharing format. If I send a photo from my phone to dropbox, or I download a photo from a text message, it has some form of srgb. Sometimes it's sRGB IE6 1966-2.1. Sometimes it's Display P3, or a form of RGB or sRGB.
Indeed. It seems to me Apple is more and more becoming a self-contained bubble, isolated from the rest of the world. Display P3 was just the beginning. P3 isn't even a particularly relevant specification for LCD monitors, so they had to apply the standard sRGB tone curve (and change the white point) to even make it work at all.
Anyway.
@Caryn with Clamshell , the general principle of color management is to always use a standard color space for document profile. That's sRGB IEC61966-2.1, Adobe RGB or ProPhoto. Lately we've had to include Display P3 in that group, because it's so ubiquitously used in the Mac community - even though it's a generic monitor profile, not a document profile.
@Caryn with Clamshell Given that your iPhone seems to be embedding the "Apple Wide Color Sharingc" ICC profile (which according to the link @D Fosse posted here seems to be a complex profile format - perhaps open each file and convert to a standardised workingspace like Adobe RGB? Is that possible? Have I misunderstood the issue?
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