Colour Spaces, Profiles, Grading and Management
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8. Set a Photoshop File's Colour Profile
Once you set up Photoshop's Colour Settings and Colour Management Policies (see previous chapter in this book), any file that you open or paste into a new document will have it's embedded profile reviewed automatically. If it doesn't match the Working Space profile, you'll be prompted to see if you want it converted.
For consistency, have all colour profiles be consistent and matching the working environment.
Premiere and After Effects are very different. They automatically assign the colour space unless you force them to adjust it, and this requires at least 1GB VRAM on your computer.
Imported documents:
- Convert: If you told Photoshop to automatically convert imported profiles, it will change any profile that does not match your workings space profile to match it.
- Preserve: If you told Photoshop to Preserve embedded profiles, a non-matching profile will get a warning from Photoshop that says it does not match the working space, and ask if you want to convert it.
New documents: If you are creating a new document, it will automatically create it using the colour Working Space you assigned in your Colour Settings.
Assign a Profile: You can give a document a colour profile when you have it opened.
- Edit > Assign Profile
- The Working profile is the option selected by default. You can change this if you want.
- Edit > Convert to Profile.
- Destination Space > Profile > (default is your working space profile, you can choose others)