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Preview+El Capitan = color management bug?

Hello,

after upgrading to El Capitan I noticed that the colors in Preview were not the same as in Photoshop (in Yosemite the colors were the same).

I tried many test with both sRGB and AdobeRGB pictures and I think I found a possible reason.

If in System Preferences > Monitor > Color I select a standard profile (AdobeRGB, sRGB or the default monitor profile) the colors are the same in Preview and Photoshop. If I select the calibrated ICC profile, made with XRite probe + BasICColor software, the colors and contrast in Preview appear wrong (saturated and posterized).

BasICColor produces v4 ICC color profiles.

Maybe ElCapitan/Preview is not compatible with v4 profiles as Yosemite?

Posted on Oct 19, 2015 1:27 AM

22 replies

F_Kal

Level 1

4 points

Feb 5, 2017 6:52 PM in response to diegotrystero

I have the same thing is macOS Sierra 😟 I made profiles with both displayCal (ArgyllCMS) and basICColor and sadly this issue is here!

F_Kal

Level 1

4 points

Feb 7, 2017 5:10 AM in response to mixelpix

Thanks @mixelpix, I did that; Hopeful they will start paying attention to the issue, it's been more than a year (and a new macOS version) and apple hasn't fixed it!

mixelpix

Level 1

9 points

Feb 7, 2017 6:53 AM in response to F_Kal

Do you have the link to your bug report? Thanks!

mixelpix

Level 1

9 points

Feb 7, 2017 10:30 AM in response to F_Kal

Ah, gotcha - well, that is only somewhat frustrating 😟

F_Kal

Level 1

4 points

Feb 7, 2017 10:33 AM in response to mixelpix

It is indeed! Somebody doesn't want us to know how many bugs there are 😝

le_dilla

Level 1

4 points

Jul 24, 2017 12:58 PM in response to mixelpix

Also got this issue. Darker tones are lost completely within the preview app. I guess there won't be a fix very soon, since the issue is known like two years now? 😀

djnail

Level 1

4 points

Oct 22, 2017 9:58 AM in response to le_dilla

More then 3 years )))) From 2014 to today

Preview+El Capitan = color management bug?