iPhoto is totally messing up the color of photos!

Joseph:

Check to see if iPhoto is embeding a color profile in the files or not. You can do that by using Pref Setter and looking for the key "EmbedColorProfile". Search for color in Pref Setter and you'll get that and a couple of other keys that may be important, EmbedColorSyncProfile" and "UseColorSyncProfile". You can change them and the test to see if that helps. Also check to confirm that you have the sRGB Profile.icc color profile on your Mac. That seems to be one that's used by many cameras. The Adobe RGB (1998) profile is used by some cameras also. It's quite a bit different from the sRGB, generic RGB and the sRGB IEC611966 profile. You can compare them with ColorSync Utility. There was a post about a missing Camera RGB.icc profile that caused some color shift.

Hope this has been of some help.

Joseph,

Colors on computer is a NASTY complicated subject. Please don't balk at people for not wanting tread. That said: There are 3 preferences that are affecting the colors you see on screen (and in print outs). (iPhoto, Photoshop, System Prefs)

1. First check your settings within iPhoto
Go to Preferences> Advanced
you will probably see the checkbox enabled for 'Add ColorSync profile'
(i assume this embeds whatever profile is chosen within System Preferences>Displays>Color)
You probably want to leave this as is if you've been satisfied with your screen appearance and printouts.

NEXT the Nasty part:
Launch photoshop: You need to mess with "Color Settings" within Photoshop to avoid this color conversion.
(the command is under Photoshop>Color Settings...)

ASSUMING here your camera or iPhoto has already embedded a color profile…

Within Photoshop>Color Settings:
Under Color Management Policies be sure it's set to
'Preserve Embedded Profiles'
You may also wish check all the boxes that say "Ask when opening" this will alert you to missing or different profiles.

ASIDE:
By default all Adobe programs are set to mess with color (TRULY annoying)AND very hard to correct. Even opening the same image in Adobe programs color is inconsistent - at least as of CS 1.
So, Unfortunately, you may need to test a few times, with different settings to see which works best.

Try now opening/resaving a COPY of one of your iPhoto images. View it in iPhoto. If this works, your good to go.
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If that doesn't do the trick:
You may also want to enable the Advanced Mode and change the engine to "Apple Color Sync" and intent to "Perceptual"

ALTERNATELY: you can choose the "Color Management Off" profile from the the Settings pop-up. (unfortunately despite the title, Pshop still won't really leave color alone)

SIDEBAR:
You should try all this copies of your originals (Duplicate first within iPhoto)
until you find a setting within Pshop that works.
The bad news, I've never found a way to set things so that it doesn't mess with color at all. Maybe someone else here can pipe in.

Good luck, if you have any joy, you should repost here to tell us what worked for you.

HTH,
xandra

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PMac Quicksilver, PBook G4 Titanium, iMacDV SE Mac OS X (10.4.4) 10.38 ->10.44

PMac Quicksilver, PBook G4 Titanium, iMacDV SE Mac OS X (10.4.4) 10.38 ->10.44