There is an easy workflow for this:  Here's an Example of how to accomplish changing items to Gold.   ... View more

CMYK values are very much print process specific.  Adobe color provides worthless CMYK values, but is great to use for Lab values.   I recommend using those in Adobe Color then making sure the color settings are correct in InDesign for the print process you are preparing your files for.   ... View more

Location, Location, Location...   and hopefully getting make up points for missing last week 😉  Location Location Location ... View more

One caveat to the files still work is that if those files must be converted to another color system or back to RGB for editing, then you must assign the correct CIELab values to each channel.    ... View more

Well it's magic then 🙂 we have been supported in Adobe libraries until just now.  Years and years.  I'm assuming one of the last versions installers finally did a clean up ... View more

Well maybe not decades ago Stephen,  the images I'm workingin on I created in August 😉 The channels are still listed as their Hexachrome colors or spot colors and the library is still available but the colors are not linked.  Possibly it may be seeing an .abr I have loaded as a bandaid to the problem.  I can relink colors like 485, but until then they are rendered as black and if double clicked and not carefully checked convert to the Black Adobe had promised in the first warning dialog.   ... View more

This error comes up as the Image is opened but before it is displayed.  Even after you have the Adobe Connect plugin installed and licensed Here's is where you click the color in the spot chanel and change the CIE Lab values.    Just a note The Hexachrome values as of today at least, are not available in Pantone Connect.  No response so far from Pantone on when missing colors will be added.   ... View more

Well that's good news.  Whenever it does happen, because it will, then this post will provide a way to see the channels that are rendered as black.   ... View more

I wish that was the case Stephen.  The files I opened were from earlier versions of PS from 2022 that used to display properly.  It's an easy fix, but I wish Adobe would pick up the CIE Lab values from the Pantone Connect Pro licensed tool.   ... View more

You can harmonize with a third color but not match.  Look at Triads for this feature.   ... View more

I have to ask match how? Meaning match the product to the monitor? Match the proof to the press? Match the proof to the monitor? Please explain the match you're trying to achieve.  Also which RGB color space are you editing in? ... View more

First, I would ask your print shop which CMYK profile is the correct one for their print process.  The one you chose is in what Adobe calls "North American prepress defaults" color settings but unfortunately probably has nothing to do with most printers' printing process unless you are printing a magazine.    Something like GraCol 2013 would probably be more appropriate and not lose so much contrast and detail.  Not all CMYK is the same.  Each is created based on a different printing process and has a different gamut size.     The most interesting thing about your post to me is that your RGB and CMYK screenshots do not match.  Telling me you have an issue in your workflow.  When converted (Except for saturated, out-of-gamut RGB colors, the conversion should appear close on a calibrated monitor.   ... View more

As winter is coming on in many parts of the world, a more frosty approach might be fun!  snowy possibilities ... View more

Choose all of your colors in RGB and convert to the correct CMYK ICC profile for your print process.   I used to think this way too but after I went to full on RGB workflows back in 1998 I never looked back.  Each person I taught fees the same way.  Try it and I'm sure you will as well.   ... View more

I have had this issue and it turned out to be a problem in the Mac OS with ColorSync.  Resolved it by reloading the OS  (Command R at start up.). That solved the issue here.   ... View more

When you assign a different ICC profile to an RGB file than how the pixels were created you change its appearance. If your intent is to change the appearance of every file in your workflow, I would not recommend this as a best practice.  If your books are published electronically Choose how you want your work to appear, but understand that if all of your files come in as sRGB then you will not be able to expand their gamut again after it was reduced to fit within sRGB.  Unless you do a lot of work on each file after assigning the incorrect ICC profile.  Your company may also not be paid extra for this color-correcting work.  So that's a business risk.   Regardless of the fact, that there are a million large gamut displays and also very many print processes that are larger in some areas than sRGB, if all you receive is sRGB images, use that, or start requesting Adobe 1998 files and begin a transition that will most likely be a good future move for your company.     ... View more

Book printing is an important clue.  What is the printer's profile for these books?  That will help me determine which RGB profile will be most efficient.     The settings do not determine any image's appearance unless you have the settings ignoring embedded profiles (incorrect for a color-managed workflow).  So long as you have "Preserve embedded profiles" checked, and all of your files include embedded profiles, the system will use what's in the files and display them properly.  What those settings will do is provide a standard way to change between color spaces, and are what's used as default standard profiles when new documents are created or converted.    ... View more

Photoshop can not do what you're asking.  I recommend that you use InDesign to assemble the files and export them to PDF with the correct spot color channels.   ... View more

You can easily add metadata using Adobe bridge.  Go to the tools menu, and there you can create a Metadata template and apply that as a batch or edit metadata in files accessed by Bridge.   ... View more

Please do show us what things look like with the green distortion issue.  Thanks ... View more

Wider gamuts are for wide gamut printing processes.  Many Inkjet printing processes print a larger gamut than sRGB in some colors.  Also if your display is only sRGB in gamut size shooting Raw and converting to Adobe RGB will not provide an image you can accurately judge for color.  Raw files are what photography pros produce.  If you are wanting to up your photography game, Start there.  Later on, when your equipment catches up with your dreams you can produce images in wider gamuts to print or proof on wide gamut processes.  Step one is to shoot in Raw, and save those files.  Process the files to pixels in the color space profile you need or want.  Sounds like in your case that's sRGB for now.   ... View more

It is not wrong at all.  ICC profiles are created and used for different purposes.  sRGB for internet use, and larger gamut profiles for printing.   The assigned and embedded profile provides the correct appearance for the file.  If you are the "artist" then the correct appearance is yours to decide.  When files are converted from Raw camera sensor information, the photographer makes many choices to determine how an image should appear.  Then those pixels are created in the color space or container profile.  If you choose a different one as in your example where you choose the larger gamut Adobe RGB instead of sRGB.  Just remember to convert it back to sRGB for internet use if that's how you want to use it.  That will preserve the color profile choice you made.   ... View more

Back in the day when the internet was in its infancy, IEC standards group got together with the ICC and worked to find the "Least common denominator" of color gamuts for users' displays.  At the time CRT was the standard for display technology and LCD and others were not available.  So an adjusted version was created that is supposed to be used in a "dim environment" because the gamut was small and the colors of this small gamut would appear more saturated in lights that weren't so bright.  It's certainly time for an update, but the reality of any change to the internet color standard would require color-managed browsers to make it all work.    ... View more

I stand corrected Ton,  my experience has shown that the png files we receive have not been embedded but it appears the root cause is not the file format.  Thanks.  ... View more

Hi Ton,  png files are "portable network graphics " files and do not support embedded profiles in that file format.  The purpose of this format is specifically for internet graphics.  So sRGB is the assumed color space in the original use case.  Today designer's attempt to use png files for other purposes but, most are unaware that there is no provision for specific color management intent.  ... View more

It depends on where your images are used, Arthur.  If they are only for presentations and web graphics, then sRGB is a good choice.  But if you include high-end print work like Sheetfed Offset printing, I recommend Adobe 98 RGB as the working space because sRGB is too small.   A good workflow if Sheetfed Offset is in your workflow is to set the standard color settings like the image below. When going to web files convert and export them with sRGB to keep the color accurate on the web.   Keep the files in Adobe RGB if going to an Offset print process, unless the printing company can not do it on the fly.  If the job goes on a digital press, the RGB portions will be converted to that press-specific color space.    Make sure that all image files include embedded profiles and color settings are consistent across all personnel in your organization.    We have multiple color management systems and presses where I work and they all support any embedded profile without issue.   ... View more

I replied to this same question you posted yesterday here     ... View more

Reset the tool preferences, and try again.  Here's a link to show how that's done.  If that does not solve the problem, go to settings General and Reset Photoshops preferences on quit.  That resets all the prefs across the application that you may have used so, doing this may have you going back through PS to adjust your settings back to the way you prefer them, but doing so will put things right.  Baring that keep your PS version current is a very good plan ... View more

No one is "chasing anyone down a rabbit hole" just basic 101 color management Andrew.   You continue to slander me as is your style, but I will continue to help regardless of your habitual rudeness.   ... View more