Color Representation in Windows

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December 27, 2019
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Hi

I'm noticing that in the new Photoshop CC, when I save a jpg with AdobeRGB color space with the ICC profile info written (the box is checked)... If I then open that jpg back in Photoshop, sure enough its AdobeRGB, but if I right click the jpg in Windows 10 and go to properties, the Color Representation says "Undefined." I'm pretty sure from searching that the issue is Windows can't see AdobeRGB and if I saved with sRGB it would show it... But I want AdobeRGB... So my question is, is there any quick way to see the Color Profile of my jpgs to confirm them without having to open them in Photoshop?

Thank you

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D Fosse

Community Expert

Bridge doesn't look very impressive at first sight, but it's a wolf in sheep's clothing once you start customizing it and dig into the full extent of its capabilities. I never felt any need for another file browser.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

I forgot about Bridge (I rarely use it). You can see the profile in the Metadata panel.

I use ACDSee for viewing exported files. It's an excellent (color managed) image viewer, but I've never used it for editing. Lightroom is probably way better.

And I don't think you can see the embedded profile anywhere in Lightroom.

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musicbydavidrosenAuthor

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Huh I never installed Bridge before... Maybe I'll check it out since it's included in my membership and see if it's a good option for checking these. Opening Photoshop for it just seems like such overkill you know.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Use Bridge. It can be set to show color space wherever you want, including directly under the file name in the thumbnail.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

It appears that the Windows file properties dialog only understands sRGB. And most image viewers use this dialog.

The only exception I know about is ACDSee, which has its own properties pane, and will identify Adobe RGB as an embedded profile.

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musicbydavidrosenAuthor

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Thanks for the response... So I'm assuming ACDSee being like a Lightroom alternative (which is also a program I regularly use), it's kind of not going to make checking these things any easier for me... I might as well just get used to double checking them in Photoshop (or lightroom for that matter)... is that right?

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