color profiles lost in right click copy?

Athena

I just right clicked on an image I'd shared on a forum, copied it and tried pasting it into PS and it gave me a warning that said, "you are pasting content copied from a document with a different color profile". It says the source is "generic RGB profile". ?? It asks if I want to convert. If I choose no, the image looks horrible.

I'm on a mac, using Firefox 4 with full color management enabled.

So I right clicked on it in the forum again, saved it to my desktop and opened it in PS. All was fine.

What is going on? At first I thought the color profile was missing from the image, but it seems like the problem is with it not being included if you right click copy. Is this a known problem that I am just stumbling on?

Here is the image:

Andy

Take a display copy (like this http://athenacarey.smugmug.com/Personal/2011/Portraits-2011/Matthew7230crop/1235000170_Ss8uz-X2.jpg) and open it in PS, you'll see that we've embedded sRGB profile into it.

Where's the embedded image in your forum - linky please

Athena

Andy wrote: »

Take a display copy (like this http://athenacarey.smugmug.com/Personal/2011/Portraits-2011/Matthew7230crop/1235000170_Ss8uz-X2.jpg) and open it in PS, you'll see that we've embedded sRGB profile into it.

Where's the embedded image in your forum - linky please

I believe you. If I right click save the image from the other forum or from the link you provided, and THEN open it in PS the color data is there.

BUT

If I right click COPY the image and paste it into PS it's gone. That was my revelation of the day. No color data (or anything other file info I guess) comes with right click copy.

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arodney

Your RGB working space is set for sRGB. That’s your “preferred” RGB editing space. The data you are hoping to paste is in a different color space (Generic RGB). If you paste without converting, you retain the color numbers but NOT the color appearance (and it looks ugly). The right answer is, convert (preserve the color appearance).

See:http://www.ppmag.com/reviews/200404_rodneycm.pdf

Athena

arodney wrote: »

Your RGB working space is set for sRGB. That’s your “preferred” RGB editing space. The data you are hoping to paste is in a different color space (Generic RGB). If you paste without converting, you retain the color numbers but NOT the color appearance (and it looks ugly). The right answer is, convert (preserve the color appearance).

See:http://www.ppmag.com/reviews/200404_rodneycm.pdf

Thanks Andrew. It's just that the image was saved as sRGB. It's my image. I right click copied it from the web and was going to paste it into PS to see what would happen. That's when I realized that "right click copy" does not include color profiles. It was just a little ah ha moment that I thought I'd share.

arodney

I right click copied it from the web and was going to paste it into PS to see what would happen. That's when I realized that "right click copy" does not include color profiles.

More than likely, that process downloads a version without an embedded profile. That’s where the Assign Profile command comes into play.