Embedded Profile Mismatch?

Just moved Photoshop from my old machine to my new machine, so far so good, got ACR 2.4 installed now and the raw photos show fine.

Once I open the photos and make adjustments tho, I get a message that says 'Embedded Profile Mismatch', that the profile in the image is Adobe RGB 1998 and that it is working with sRGB IEC61966-2.1

I dont ever recall setting my camera to some other color space. I dont recall ever getting this message on my other machine.

I am not a professional, so I dont muck with Color spaces. I use raw for flexibility and the possibility that I could get better performance tweaks out of these images in the future once I am more skilled with Photoshop-fu. So I'm a little befuddled on which one of these settings I should stick with.

I take my final jpeg output to Costco and have up to 20x30s made there, I dont do any prints at home, if that makes a difference.

Sam

There's a drop down at the bottom left of the camera raw dialog, set that to sRgb if that's your working space (and it should be).

You need either to change you image output to sRGB or change your Photoshop working color space to Adobe RGB. Or turn off color management in Photoshop. If you're not sure what you are doing, but are happy with your prints, I would suggest the latter, at least until you better understand color management..

I'm happy with what I had on the old machine =) Will see what that is set to.

Sam

Color management is one of the most complex topics i've ever looked at. Keeping everything in sRgb is simple and saves trouble.

Strangely that one was set to 1998 as well but never complained. I set it to SRGB and will hope for the best.

Sam

Seems like your old machine had Photoshop working space set to Adobe RGB and your images have the Adobe RGB profile embedded in it. Since they both match, PS did not complain about it.

You new computer has the Photoshop working space set to sRGB but the images are still in Adobe RGB and hence the complaint about a profile mismatch. If you want the new computer to be set like the old one, you should change the PS color setting in the new computer to Adobe RGB, too.

Be aware that Edit->Color Settings has three separate sub frames that are essentially independent of one another. You set your preferences for working space in the upper one and you set your Color Management Policies in the middle one and you leave the bottom one alone, generally.

In that middle group if you set the three options to "Preserve Embedded Profiles" and also uncheck the check boxes, then color management will still be working but it will be very forgiving and will hardly ever bark at you.

As the other gentlemen have advised, you could set your profile while working in ACR with RAW files to sRGB, or you could set your RGB Working Space in the Color Settings to Adobe RGB 1998, and everything would be consistent. I recommend the latter, because I think your output from ACR will end up more consistent with what you have been doing in the past with the previous machine.