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Spyder 5 Elite, Windows 7 64 bit, Photoshop CS4 64 bit.

I am using my Spyder custom calibration for my RGB Working Space in my Photoshop CS4 Color Settings which makes my Settings: "Custom."

Every photo I open from my D90 in Adobe Bridge then brings up a profile mismatch warning. Do I want Adobe to convert each image to the monitor profile and then when I re-save for the client save as sRGB?

I want to leave "Profile Mismatch" "Ask When Opening" option on so I know what Photoshop is doing with color. However, I can not under "Color Management Policies" "RGB" select the option that says "Preserve Embedded Profiles." That option is greyed out. It is not greyed out if I use a standard RGB color profile.

When I have tried to allow PS to convert to the monitor profile and saved back as sRGB there is quite a noticable color difference.

Thanks for giving me a good workflow.

On Nov 4, 2010, at 8:45 AM, actsmbs wrote:

> I am using my Spyder custom calibration for my RGB Working Space in my Photoshop CS4 Color Settings which makes my Settings: "Custom."
> 
> Every photo I open from my D90 in Adobe Bridge then brings up a profile mismatch warning. Do I want Adobe to convert each image to the monitor profile and then when I re-save for the client save as sRGB?



Please do not set your display profile as your workingspace. This effectively cancels out screen color management. Use sRGB, AdobeRGB or some other appropriate workingspace, and let Photoshop access your display profile(s) automatically for the workingspace-to-display conversion on the fly.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...

On Nov 4, 2010, at 8:45 AM, actsmbs wrote:

> Spyder 5 Elite, Windows 7 64 bit, Photoshop CS4 64 bit.
> 
> I am using my Spyder custom calibration for my RGB Working Space in my Photoshop CS4 Color Settings which makes my Settings: "Custom."
> 

There's your mistake: you're not supposed to do that...!

Your RGB working space should be set to a "real" working space: sRGB, Adobe RGB, Pro Photo,
etc. Never to a display profile or a printer profile!

Set the working space correctly, and not only will things improve, but you won't
get those errors, either.

When you build a display profile, it gets hooked into your system automatically as the
current "system" profile, and color management-aware applications will access it that
way directly. Photoshop picks it up and uses it when appropriate without your having
to ever select it "by name" anywhere inside of Photoshop (nor should you).

David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
Datacolor