When to Embed Color Profile?

Sophia Al-Mansoor
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The Importance of Embedding the Color Profile Whenever You Edit Your Photos in an Editing Program Like Photoshop, You Are Doing So Using a Specific Rgb Working...

When to Embed Color Profile?

The Importance of Embedding the Color Profile
Whenever you edit your photos in an editing program like Photoshop, you are doing so using a specific RGB working color space. To be sure of preserving the color you see when you're editing, you need to embed the profile before saving the image.

What does embedding color profile mean?

" Embedded " means the color profile information is embedded in the image's metadata. Every color-managed image editor has a setting somewhere that asks you what to do with images that don't have color profile information.

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Should you embed ICC profile?

If you want the numbers preserved, even at the expense of a color shift on output, don't embed the profiles. If the logos use mixed process colors and will generate 4 plates anyway, then I would leave the profiles embedded in hopes the other user gets the management right and the appearance of the color is maintained.

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