Color Profiles in Mac OXS

<p>I know various forms of this question have been asked elsewhere, and I've read many replies without finding a way to fix the issue. Hopefully I've outlined things thoroughly enough below that someone will read it and say, "Oh, of course you just need to....." : ) (I'm using a MBP with Leopard 10.5.7)<br /> <br /> The color of my photos is correct and consistent within Photoshop, Safari, and Firefox. However, when I view them in Preview/Quickview or iPhoto, they are very noticeably over-saturated and darker. This is true for images taken with both my cameras (a Panasonic and a Canon), images displayed on webpages, and images I save or download from the web. The same is true for video footage: once uploaded, my videos look correct and consistent on Safari and Firefox (in Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook, and Youtube), but always darker and more saturated in both Quickview and iMovie. I've inserted an image below that demonstrates the differences. <br /> <br /> There are two methods I've found that make images display with the correct color in Preview(etc), but each requires manually changing a setting and re-saving each image individually. How can I display the correct color without changing each individual image? The two methods are listed below:<br /> <br /> METHOD 1: If I open a photo in Preview, it is over-saturated. Looking under "Tools > Assign Color Profile," the default is set to "Generic RGB Profile." If I change this to "Display" or "Color LCD," the image looks perfect! How can I implement this system wide, so Preview always assigns the color profile "Display" or "Color LCD"?<br /> <br /> METHOD 2: Take an image that is over-saturated in Preview. When I open a photo in Photoshop, then save a JPEG with the "embed color profile" box checked, the resultant image will display correctly in Preview/Quicklook, etc. (actually it's still a little more saturated, but not nearly as much). So now the question is, how can I get OSX to recognize/embed/not strip out the color profiles from the start? I have about 45,000 digital images (adding more all the time) so clearly opening them each in PS and resaving them with embedded profiles is not an option. <br /> <br /> I've seen the same problem (sometimes with slight variations) posted elsewhere, and no one seems to be able to offer a solution. Can anyone provide a straightforward fix? Changing the color profile/gamma settings for the LCD does not work because, of course, if I get Preview/Quickview/iPhoto/iMovie to display correctly, then everything else looks wrong. There must be some internal OSX setting that controls the way these programs read and display color.<br /> <br /> Any help is appreciated!<br /> Patrick<br>

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<p>I would hazard a guess that your set up of colour management is way out...</p>

<p>Firstly, monitor profiles and colour spaces are completely independent of each other. Colour spaces are things like sRGB, Adobe RGD (1998) & ProPhoto. These are associated with (embedded) into images and tell a colour aware application how to translate the "numbers" (which represent a colour) in your image file to the monitor.</p>

<p>Assigning a profile requires that you know/expect that the image IS that profile. For example, if an image was really ProPhoto and you assigned sRGB it would not look good next time you opened it. Converting to a profile actually changes the number values appropriately and embeds the new profile.</p>

<p>The monitor (although more difficult on a notebook) needs to be "calibrated". This just means that it is at a known state that can accurately display a colour. Calibration requires a feedback system with a puck that reads colours from the monitor and allows the associated software to build a table that will ensure an accurate display of colours. Names of monitor profiles are usually whatever you want to call them as you create them. But whatever you do, DO NOT use a colour profile in its place.</p>

<p>Once you have all this done, if an image has a colour space embedded (regardless of what it is) then it should display the same (correctly) on your calibrated monitor. Just dont start "assigning" colour spaces without thought. However, if you have already done this, if you "fix" the image then resave with the new profile embedded it will look ok next time.</p>

<p>BTW, if you want to colour management enable Firefox, type "about:config" in the URL then search for gfx.color_management.enabled and set it to TRUE.</p>

<p>I have this exact same problem on my MacBook Pro, except that it happens in Photoshop as well. It doesn't happen in DPP. I suspect that the OP's image in Photoshop would look like the Preview/iPhoto display if he turned color management on.</p>

<p>My images are captured in sRGB. If I turn on color management in Photoshop CS2 with North American General Purpose 2 settings, then I get oversaturated reds. My monitor profile is the default "Color LCD" profile that ships with the machine.</p>

<p>If I open an sRGB file using the "Monitor Color" setting, I get a warning asking me how to handle the profile mismatch. If I choose "use embedded profile" or "convert embedded profile" I get the same problem, because this overrides the Monitor Color settings for this file. If I discard the embedded profile, I get the same color as I see in DPP.</p>

<p>When I open an sRGB file in Preview or iPhoto, I get the oversaturated colors no matter what I do. It makes viewing and editing images impossible outside of DPP, which I suppose is okay, since DPP is where I do most of my color-critical adjustments, and I use Photoshop for detailed retouching.</p>

<p>I'm stumped. I've tried calibrating the display using the built-in utility but it is impossible--no matter what I do, the display looks horribly blue. Furthermore, I see no reason to recalibrate the display profile if DPP shows the correct color. I am reluctant to purchase an expensive color calibration product when I don't even know what the problem is. I've read through numerous articles and posts online about color calibration, and none of them have helped.</p>

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<p><em>My monitor profile is the default "Color LCD" profile that ships with the machine.</em><br>

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Just because it came with the machine doesnt mean its correct... Probability is that its not!</p>

<p><em>If I open an sRGB file using the "Monitor Color" setting, I get a warning asking me how to handle the profile mismatch. If I choose "use embedded profile" or "convert embedded profile" I get the same problem, because this overrides the Monitor Color settings for this file. If I discard the embedded profile, I get the same color as I see in DPP.</em><br>

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The warning to handle the mismatch has nothing to do with your monitor profile. This is a mismatch between your files embedded colour profile and the default workspace you have set in the Photoshop colour preferences.</p>

<p><em>When I open an sRGB file in Preview or iPhoto, I get the oversaturated colors no matter what I do.</em><br>

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How did the image become sRGB? If it wasnt originally sRGB and your merely "assigned" the profile, of course it would be wrong. ie. if it was sRGB and your default colour space in PS was set to Adobe RGB, and you allowed the mismatch to be resolved by PS converting the profile, after which you "assigned sRBG back, the colour information in the image would be wrong.</p>

<p><em>I'm stumped. I've tried calibrating the display using the built-in utility but it is impossible</em><br>

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Dont... you cant calibrate a monitor with just software. You need a calibration system with a monitor colorimeter that has feedback information</p>

<p>1) Basically, perform a hardware monitor calibration.<br>

2) Dont "assign" profiles to an image (unless you really know why youre doing it)<br>

3) Check what you colour space preferences are set to in PS and as well, how it is set to handle the mismatch - auto convert, ask, etc.</p>

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<p>Just because it came with the machine doesnt mean its correct... Probability is that its not!</p>

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<p>I understand this, I really do. But at the same time, there's nothing I have been able to do with the display that makes it look any better (and when I mean "better," I mean "more perceptually accurate") than what was set as the default. Yes, it's very likely that it isn't "perfect." But it is close, at least more close than what would be indicated by the oversaturated images in Preview.</p>

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<p>The warning to handle the mismatch has nothing to do with your monitor profile. This is a mismatch between your files embedded colour profile and the default workspace you have set in the Photoshop colour preferences.</p>

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<p>Again, I am aware of this. But the Monitor Color setting in Photoshop CS2 uses the display profile (in this case, Color LCD) as the working space. That I know is not the correct thing to do, but I mentioned it to illustrate what happens when I change the color settings to this option. If I use the North American General Purpose 2 settings, the working space is sRGB and the files are sRGB, and so there is no mismatch generated, but the color is still wrong, whereas if I open the same file in DPP, it is correct. Why?</p>

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<p>How did the image become sRGB? If it wasnt originally sRGB and your merely "assigned" the profile, of course it would be wrong.</p>

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<p>Yes, I know this already too. The images are directly from my camera which has set the profile as sRGB. If I shoot in JPEG+RAW mode, Canon's DPP software renders both nearly identically in color (there may be minor differences due to rendering intent for RAW). But then I open the JPEG in Photoshop or Preview and the colors are oversaturated in exactly the same way as the OP described.</p>

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<p>1) Basically, perform a hardware monitor calibration.<br /> 2) Dont "assign" profiles to an image (unless you really know why youre doing it)<br /> 3) Check what you colour space preferences are set to in PS and as well, how it is set to handle the mismatch - auto convert, ask, etc.</p>

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<p>I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but while your suggestions may be appropriate, they don't address the critical question, which is: Why does the display of the exact same file differ in Canon's DPP software versus Preview/Photoshop? It makes no sense whatsoever. Your recommendation to do a hardware monitor calibration--an expensive proposition--would not resolve this question. To make things even more interesting, Firefox 3.5's default settings also display the same file correctly. I have not assigned profiles manually to any of the affected images--all profiles were assigned by the hardware that captured the image. The preferences in Photoshop should not matter if the working space is the same as the image's profile.</p>

 

<p>Hey, thanks to everyone for these quick and highly detailed responses. I certainly have more to learn about color profiling. However, I have to agree that I still have the same difficulty as Peter Wang, and this is not solveable by calibrating the monitor, with or without a hardware calibrator. The thing is (and I also apologize for sounding like a broken record), my monitor already displays colors correctly. I don't want to change my monitor. In all third party software and all web browsers, my images look exactly right. Why do they look different in native OSX apps? This is what I want to change, how OSX native apps are displaying the color. We're talking about the same file looking different in different applications, so calibrating the monitor won't change how those individual apps read the color profile of the image. The image might look better, but the same amount of difference will still exist in the way different applications display it. <br /> <br /> <em>To put it more directly</em> : I need to change the way OSX handles color profiles, not the way my monitor displays color/gamma/etc.<br /> <br /> In the image I embedded above, <strong>I have not changed anything about the color profiles.</strong> I just learned that I could change the profiles in Preview, so I haven't been running around willy-nilly changing settings on anything. That is the exact same file displayed in four programs. Preview gets it wrong. Why is this? How can I change it? Calibrating the monitor will change how the Preview image looks, but it will make similar changes to the way the Safari/Firefox/Photoshop image looks, so they still won't match.<br /> <br /> If someone could tell me how to make Preview match Safari/Photoshop/Firefox, I would be grateful.<br /> <br /> Thanks again!<br /> Patrick</p>

<p>To put it another way:<br>

It used to be the case for me that Safari/Firefox displayed the images correctly, but both Preview <strong>and</strong> Photoshop were over-saturating. I changed the Color Settings in Photoshop to "Monitor RGB - Color LCD Calibrated," and <em>poof</em> , it instantly displayed images with the same color as Safari/Firefox. How can I create a similar "poof" in OSX so it displays that same color?</p>

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<p>To put it another way:<br /> It used to be the case for me that Safari/Firefox displayed the images correctly, but both Preview <strong>and</strong> Photoshop were over-saturating. I changed the Color Settings in Photoshop to "Monitor RGB - Color LCD Calibrated," and <em>poof</em> , it instantly displayed images with the same color as Safari/Firefox. How can I create a similar "poof" in OSX so it displays that same color?</p>

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<p>I *knew* it. I suspected that you did exactly that, per my earlier post:</p>

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<p>I suspect that the OP's image in Photoshop would look like the Preview/iPhoto display if he turned color management on.</p>

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<p>When you changed your color settings in Phtoshop to Monitor RGB - Color LCD Calibrated, you have basically told Photoshop you want to make your working space your display space, which is apparently not a good thing, because your display space is not capable of showing the wider gamut that the image was recorded in. That's why it matches in PS now, but I don't think that's what you should be doing in the event that you want to print those images opened, edited, and then saved in PS.</p>

<p>Hmmmm....you may be correct, as I have always thought that my printed images came out too dark and over-saturated already, even before I changed anything about the color handling in PS, so if PS is now showing me even lighter, less-saturated images, it seems I've changed it in the wrong direction. So if Preview/iPhoto/etc are displaying "correct" color, why are Firefox and Safari so far off? The reason I originally changed my PS setting was because images posted to any website looked completely bleached of color compared to both the original and what I had generated in PS.<br /> <br /> But there is also the problem that the colors seem "correct" in the web, rather than is OSX. For instance, in the image I posted above, it looks dead-on in both Safari and Firefox, perfect/reaistic skin tones, but if I grab that image and drag it to my desktop, the skin suddenly looks sunburned. <br /> <br /> ach.</p>

<p>I suppose it's possible I will have to adjust the settings depending on whether I want to output for print or for web. As it is now, PS matches what I will see on the web, but it will probably look terrible printed. I'm okay with going back and forth, I just want to be able to see consistency in all applications.<br /> <br /> EDIT: yes, I definitely want to use the "display space" color across all applications, as 98% of my images are shared/viewed either online or on my monitor, so I want those two spaces to match each other. For the 2-3% of images that I print, I can save a different setting within Photoshop or keep a proof print around to match the printed colors. So this takes me back to the original problem: now that I've gotten PS to display correctly, how do I change OSX/Preview. I suspect it has something to do with the "Colorsync Utility," but I'm hesitant to go mucking around in there...<br /> <br /> Suggestions?</p>

<p>ditn really read the whole thread..but buy a external calibration device and that should fix most of your problem.</p>

<p>You dont *adjust* your image for your different need; you adjust them until YOU like them on your calibrated monitor. Then you apply a color profile like sRGB if you want to print to a lab, look at it on the web, place it in keynote / powerpoint for projection. All that could be done automaticaly by using bridge / image processor.</p>

<p>In Photoshop make sure you sleect the correct color space for your need; sRGB, Adobe RGB or Pro Photo RGB ( i dont think you should use Pro Photo for now as it will give you more headache) When those preference are well set, you shouldtn get many more error message.</p>

<p>In the mean time if you feel for it, have a good read;</p>

<p>Color Management for Photographers: Hands on Techniques for Photoshop Users by Andrew Rodney</p>

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<p>Make sure each image you test has the same ICC profile assigned (say sRGB). The previews in Photoshop and all other applications that match are correct. Any applications that don't match are either not using the display profile correctly or at all, or do not recognize the embedded profile. Doesn't matter what the display profile is set at (it could be wrong but every application will preview them identically and wrong). Assigning the display profile is NOT the fix nor the way to be testing this problem. You need to embed (tag) something other than the display profile to know if the applications in question are using the embedded profile and the display profile in tandem to produce a color managed preview. Again, Photoshop is correct in how it builds a preview using display and embedded profile. This isn't to say the RGB numbers are previewing correctly! You may have the incorrect embedded profile or a poor (canned) display profile. But that's a different issue for now. </p>

<p>Can anyone tell me, in the image I embedded in the original post, how to make Preview/iPhoto match the others? I'm still not sure. Even if this is not the "correct" thing to do, I would like to know simply to satisfy my own curiosity. Andrew, what you say in your second sentence is correct -- Preview/iPhoto/OSX is the app that is "either not using the display profile correctly or at all, or not recognizing the embedded profile," and therefore doesn't match. <br /> <br /> Maybe this is the best way to describe: if I see a photo on the web, <em>it displays correctly on my monitor</em> , but the moment I drag it to my desktop (and Preview gets hold of it), <em>the colors change completely.</em> I believe this is because OSX always uses the "Generic RGB Profile," which either strips out the original profile or inserts it where there was none. This is what I want to stop. Please, I am looking for a way to change the way OSX handles color profiles, not for advice on calibrating my monitor.<br /> <br /> Again, please, we are talking about precisely the same image, the exact same file, displaying differently in different applications. This will not be solved by calibrating the monitor. The advice I'm looking for will have to be something about the settings within OSX.<br /> <br /> Again, thanks for all of the help!</p>

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<p>Maybe this is the best way to describe: if I see a photo on the web, <em >it displays correctly on my monitor</em></p>

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<p>Unless the browser is color managed (and it would match Photoshop), no, its incorrect. Untagged web doc's are assumed to be in your display profile color space. So to match Photoshop, you'd have to assign this (then they would match although its very unlikely, actually pretty impossible that data from the web is in your display profile color space). </p>

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<p>I believe this is because OSX always uses the "Generic RGB Profile," which either strips out the original profile or inserts it where there was none.</p>

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<p>I doubt that it strips out or overrides an embedded profile if there is one. If there is no embedded profile, it does seem to assume Generic RGB Profile by design.</p>

<p>I could not find a way to change the default from Generic RGB Profile to something more reasonable, but I do not have access to Mac OS X to play around with it either.</p>

<p>Perhaps it was for legacy reasons, but in my opinion it is inexcusable for Apple to have chosen a default profile other than sRGB.</p>

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<p> If there is no embedded profile, it does seem to assume Generic RGB Profile by design.</p>

 

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<p>Not in Safari, not on my version of OS X, it assumes the display profile. Easy enough to test. Open a document that's a mile away from either profiles under discussion (sRGB, display profile or Generic RGB). Assign each to a copy of the document, then save a copy with no embedded profile and open in Safari. Which matches? </p>

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<p>Unless the browser is color managed (and it would match Photoshop), no, its incorrect. Untagged web doc's are assumed to be in your display profile color space. So to match Photoshop, you'd have to assign this (then they would match although its very unlikely, actually pretty impossible that data from the web is in your display profile color space).</p>

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<p>Okay, so let me see if I understand this correctly. What you are basically saying is that the color managed display (i.e., sRGB captured image, viewed in an application such as Photoshop set to sRGB working space, on a display that is using some calibrated profile), should display colors as they ought to appear.</p>

<p>The logical conclusion to this statement, then, is that Photoshop and Preview are correct but it is the non-managed applications that ignore the ICC tags that are incorrect (e.g., Firefox, DPP). Furthermore, this implies that once the display is hardware calibrated and a custom profile is created, this should in theory make applications such as Preview and Photoshop display correctly, and the non-managed applications such as Firefox incorrect.</p>

<p>Am I correct so far?</p>

<p>The problem, though, is that DPP supposedly supports color management. I have its preferences set correctly to the best of my knowledge. And it displays color in a way that closely matches the output as viewed on the LCD screen of my camera (at least more closely than the oversaturated colors in Photoshop). So if I do hardware recalibration of the display, wouldn't that affect BOTH DPP and Photoshop's rendering? See, this is what I don't understand. And I need to understand this before I splash out $$$ for a color calibrator that I can't be reasonably assured will do anything to help resolve this issue.</p>

<p>But just in case I do eventually get one, which one should I buy? Again, I don't want to spend huge amounts of money. And I need to be able to return it if it doesn't resolve the issue. I'm not exactly ignorant of computer hardware or technology--I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about technical things. But as far as I'm concerned, unmanaged images look to me to be far, far more color accurate than the so-called "managed" renderings.</p>

<p>I can confirm that all of my images are displayed by default with Generic RGB. <br /> I have a Panasonic LX3 and a Canon XT. If I look in "Get Info" for the LX3 images, the listings are:<br /> Color Space: RGB<br /> Profile Name: sRGB IEC61966-2.1<br /> But when I open in Preview, choose "Tools > Assign Profile," it is already preset to "Generic RGB" in all instances.<br /> <br /> <strong>EDIT</strong> : Sorry, what I wrote above is incorrect. (I'm leaving it there in case it sheds some light on my confusion : ) Under "Tools > Assign Profile," "Generic RGB" is not actually set, it's just the first option that pops up. Actually, if I select Generic RGB and apply it, the image displays correctly! (i.e. not over-saturated, brings back shadow detail, reds and skin tones under control). This is how I want Preview to display the colors. How can I do this?<br /> <br /> Thanks everyone for your responses. This must be frustrating....I most likely just need to do some serious reading about color management when I have the time, rather than posting my problem and saying "please fix this!" ; )</p>

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<p>What you are basically saying is that the color managed display (i.e., sRGB captured image, viewed in an application such as Photoshop set to sRGB working space, on a display that is using some calibrated profile), should display colors as they ought to appear.</p>

 

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<p>Got nothing to do with an sRGB setting in Photoshop. You need a display profile and you need an embedded profile in a document for Photoshop to preview the numbers as an ICC aware application. The embedded profile could be incorrect (tag doesn't describe the actual color space of those numbers) and/or you can have a poor display profile. None the less, with the same tagged image using the same display profile, all color aware applications will preview the data the same way. Either you don't have an embedded profile, in which case, some applications like Photoshop will make differing assumptions to the scale of those numbers from say Safari, OR you're not working with ICC aware applications. </p>

 

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<p>Furthermore, this implies that once the display is hardware calibrated and a custom profile is created, this should in theory make applications such as Preview and Photoshop display correctly, and the non-managed applications such as Firefox incorrect.</p>

 

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<p>Again, if the same RGB numbers have the same tag, all ICC aware applications will produce the same preview. Might be incorrect but they will match. If document doesn't have an embedded profile, its possible differing ICC aware applications will assume the tag differently. Photoshop assumes untagged documents are in whatever color space you have set in the color settings. Safari and iPhoto/Preview should assume display RGB. So as I said above, first thing you have to do is ensure the document being testings has an embedded profile. If it does, all ICC aware applications will produce the same preview (albeit, it might be wrong). </p>

<p>A custom display profile and/or printer profile ensures the numbers actually are being shown to you correctly. But a generic display profile will still work in terms of matching the RGB numbers on the display with all ICC aware applications. </p>

<p>Andrew,</p>

<p>Thanks for bearing with me on this. I do know for a fact that the images in question are tagged as sRGB, because (1) they come straight from the camera, (2) I can open up the EXIF metadata and see that the sRGB profile has been assigned, and (3) if I open them up in Photoshop when the working space is not set to sRGB, a warning dialog pops up asking me how to proceed with color management. So by all indications the images are tagged. And since I haven't overwritten the originals, the same data is being read by the various applications, whether it be Preview, Photoshop, Canon DPP, or Firefox.</p>

<p>My confusion stems from the fact that according to Photoshop and DPP, both are ICC-aware applications, yet they read the same data and display it in different ways. The file is the same. The display profile has not changed. Both applications report using the sRGB color space as the working space. And yet, they render the same image in dramatically different ways. And this is what I don't understand, and why I presently believe that a hardware calibration of the display will not help with my issue.</p>

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<p>Thanks for bearing with me on this. I do know for a fact that the images in question are tagged as sRGB, because (1) they come straight from the camera, (2) I can open up the EXIF metadata and see that the sRGB profile has been assigned.....</p>

 

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<p>Assign sRGB using Photoshop (Assign Profile, save) to actually embed the ICC profiles. EXIF doesn't count! <br>

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<p>Under "Tools > Assign Profile," "Generic RGB" is not actually set, it's just the first option that pops up. Actually, if I select Generic RGB and apply it, the image displays correctly! (i.e. not over-saturated, brings back shadow detail, reds and skin tones under control). This is how I want Preview to display the colors. How can I do this?</p>

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<p>I seem to have misunderstood the problem before, but I still do not think that Generic RGB profile has any place in most workflows. What does it look like if you assign sRGB? If it still looks wrong in that case, then the problem may be with whatever profile Preview thinks the monitor has.</p>

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<p>I seem to have misunderstood the problem before, but I still do not think that Generic RGB profile has any place in most workflows. What does it look like if you assign sRGB? If it still looks wrong in that case, then the problem may be with whatever profile Preview thinks the monitor has.</p>

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<p>Hi Joe -- if I assign sRGB through Preview, it does not change the image at all (i.e. it still looks wrong). I'm trying this on several images now, and I hadn't even realized how dramatic the differences are. Setting the profile to Generic RGB via Preview for dark or silhouetted images brings back a <strong>ton</strong> of shadow detail and texture, almost what I would expect from a RAW file.<br /> <br /> I think you're on to something with the problem being "whatever profile Preview thinks the monitor has." How can I remedy that?<br /> <br /> Thanks so much for the help!</p>

<p>I would assume that Preview uses whatever monitor profile is specified in the Devices section of the ColorSync utility, but so should Safari, Firefox, and Photoshop.</p>

<p>Do all four change if you change the monitor profile in ColorSync? Could you try setting the monitor profile to sRGB as an experiment? Without knowing what your monitor is, I don't know if sRGB is likely to be close or not.</p>

<p>Also, as a sanity check of embedded profiles, what does this image look like in those four applications?</p><div></div>

<p>Okay -- I made your suggested adjustments and here are my results:<br /> <br /> First I should tell you that I'm dealing only with the actual built-in LCD of my MBP, not an external monitor (sorry if I didn't make that clear already).<br /> <br /> The image you've embedded above appears in the following ways:<br /> Preview: If I drag and drop into Preview, the text turns green and says "The embedded profile is used"<br /> Firefox: "The embedded test profile is not used" in blue/red<br /> Safari: green text: "The embedded profile is used"<br /> Photoshop: when I open in photoshop, I get the message...<br /> "The document has an embedded color profile that does not match the current RBG working space. <br /> Embedded: Test RGB Profile<br /> Working: sRGB IEC61966-2.1"<br /> ...with three options. The different options result in:<br /> --discard the profile (don't color manage) = blue/red<br /> --convert to working space = green<br /> --use embedded profile instead of working space = green<br /> <br /> In Colorsync, my monitor is set to the factory default, which is "Color LCD." If I change this to sRBG, the monitor takes on a cool/blue-ish tone, but the color performance stays the same as I've listed above. That is, everything looks a bit cooler/brighter, but the RGB colors displayed in each instance stay the same in each application.</p>