Peter Figen
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Alan321 wrote:
Peter, like sbay I don't see any command in Bridge that will change or assign colour profiles. Were you referring to Bridge doing this, or to Bridge passing the files on to Photoshop for Ps to do the work ?
However, I can see that Bridge is clearly great for showing me which files have which profiles.
I have found out that in Ps I can use Edit > Assign Profile or Edit > Convert to Profile.
I dabbled with assigning a colour profile in Ps but nothing seemed different when I viewed it in LrC. So I tried converting to the profile and still no change when viewed in LrC. Eventually I got to see a change when I realised that I had to re-sync that folder within LrC to bring the Ps changes into LrC.
Problems were further compounded by the original picture files having crappy colours in terms of incorrect white balance, excessive saturation, etc., rather than just lacking a colour profile. So I haven't avoided editing the pictures but I might have a better starting point.
Another problem I have now is learning how to automate the process of saving the files from Ps with their new profiles and adding some text such as the profile name to their names automatically without being asked for details every time. I cheated somewhat by renaming them in bulk outside Ps  Sometimes Ps proposes different compression levels and I don't know whether they are based on previous settings within the files or on something else such as the pixel dimensions of the files.
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Alan - The Action you would make would be using the Actions Palette to create an automation that would use the Assign Profile command to assign the desired profile.
When you're viewing a file with no assigned or embedded profile, you're essentially viewing it in what's called "Monitor RGB" - the native color space of your monitor. If your monitor is sRGB or close to it, it would make sense that you'd see little or no difference in the file's appearance after embedding/assigning the profile. Converting to a profile will attempt to maintain the look while changing the underlying color space and embedded profile, and if you've got images, as you say, that are already crappy, it might not matter if you assign a profile or not. The best advice in that situation is usually to try assigning different profiles to see what makes the file look the best and then convert to your preferred profile, whatever that may be. Then, if you wish, you can further color correct and retouch.
Another thing I like to do is, when viewing files in Photoshop, use the drop down menu at the lower left hand corner of the image window, click on it and set it to show Document Profile. That way, no matter what image you're looking at in Ps, you'll instantly be able to glance down and see what the color space is. And the last thing is that I would not obsess about whether resaving your jpegs changes a pixel or two by one or two points. It simply will not matter and you'll never see it.
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