One more thing in reply to @tom attix from the other day. Tom mentioned "I tried BTA-1138's action with show dialogs on and all of my PNG saves had the checkbox marked."   I got that behavior as well. With dialogs on, the embed profile checkbox is checked every time. The bug sufaces when dialogs are turned off however. That's when we get the behavior where the first PNG file saved includes a profile but all subsequent ones do not.     ... View more

Here's some additional commentary on this matter from the Photoshop scripting community. Re: Jsx Save as PNG With Embedded Color Profile - Adobe Support Community - 13954786 It seems this has been an ongoing problem for some time. Adobe, what do you say we get this fixed once and for all?   On the plus side, it looks like there is a workaround, with some caveats. You can replace the Save As step in your action with a Export > Save for Web (Legacy) step. This will reliably retain the embedded ICC profile if Embed Color Profile is selected. Depending on your file naming requirements you may also need to adjust the Output Settings > Saving Files settings for File Naming and Filename Compatibility. The down side is that you can't dynamically select the output directory for batch operations since there is no Save or Save As step in the action. The output directory is hard coded in the Export action step. Not the end of the world but an inconvenience as you would have to direct all output to a common folder and them manually move the files after processing. ... View more

Nevermind, after further testing I'm getting the same behavior as v24.7.1. Strangely, when I noticed v25 was installed I launched it and immediately ran a batch, using the same test folders I've been using, to export some TIFF files to PNG. All of the PNG files included the embedded ICC profile. I thought it was possibly fixed. I then went to another machine, that didn't yet have v25, and manually initiated the update. One updated I did the same batch test on that machine and got the same results as v24.7.1 - the first PNG saved included the profile but the subsequent ones did not. Then I went back to the first machine and tried again. In between, Photoshop had been quit and relaunched for what it's worth. Sadly, it was now back tot the previous, incorrect behavior. For some reason I got one good batch, but ultimately the problem remains. I though it may be too good to be true. I couldn't imagine that something discussed on here just a few days ago was already in the release, unless the deverlopers were already working on it, which it seems is not the case. ... View more

Just updated to Photoshop 2024 (v25.0.0) today. It looks like this may now be fixed.  ... View more

This appears to affect versions beyond 24.0.1, not exactly sure which version it started in though. I have a machine currently running 24.0.1 that works as expected. I was working a screen capture video to show it working correctly in this version, then I was going to update to 24.7 to show the issue. However I have a secondary issue now. For some reason the Creative Cloud app Updates tab says "You're up to date" and doesn't show any newer versions available. This is a 2015 iMac running macOS 12.6.8, so it's a little older but it meets all system requirements for Photoshop here Photoshop system requirements (adobe.com)   Any idea why I can't update past 24.0.1 on this machine? ... View more

@tom attix This on macOS, I haven't tested on Windows. I had already tried your suggestion of manually saving a PNG with Embed Color Profile selected with the intent to make it sticky when the batch action runs. What happens is that the first image saved does include the profile but all subsequesnt images do not. After running the batch, if I go back to manually save a PNG, the Embed Color Profile checkbox is no longer selected.  ... View more

I'm having the same problem, up to and including Photoshop 24.7.0. Clearly a bug. Did @CShubert go dark?  ... View more