"You have an input-only color profile"

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September 1, 2024
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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.

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@Angelique & Friends 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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D Fosse

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What is the embedded document profile (not the working space, which doesn't matter) - and what is your monitor profile at system level?

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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.

D Fosse

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What does it say here:

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