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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: [email protected] on March 30, 2026, 01:25:47 pm
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I hardware calibrated My Asus ProArt monitor and the ICC profile it generated is set as the default color profile in Windows 11 Pro color settings. However when I open Photoshop (latest version) and go to Color Settings to check the monitor Profile it shows Monitor - RGB - sRGB IEC61966-2.1 as the monitor color space. This is what it showed before calibration. Should Photoshop show my monitor profile here? How do I change this if it should?
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Should Photoshop show my monitor profile here? How do I change this if it should?
Yes, it should show the profile made by Asus. You may need to contact them about their software and why it isn't being seen there.
If you use Convert to Profile or Assign Profile, do you see the profile you made anywhere in the list?
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Andrew, silly (well, curious) question; does color setting in PS on the mac show monitor settings? I only see working spaces, policies etc.
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Shows up on mine:
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It does show up in the Covert to Profile list. The Asus software did not put it in the correct folder, but I loaded it there and and I set it as the default myself in Windows Pro manually.
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There's nowhere in photoshop that will show what your current monitor profile is set to. Since it is a color aware application, it will use whatever you have set in windows color settings as the defualt for your monitor, which the Asus utility *should* set automatically (it does on my mac, but the first few versions didn't generate an icc profile at all, they're definitely still working on that software). The color settings in photoshop are for your working space, for which you do not want to use your monitor profile, you should be using something well behaved like AdobeRGB, sRGB, etc-- something that is meant to be a working space, not a device profile. IMO I would also advise that you turn on all the check boxes for warnings for missing embedded profiles and profile mismatches and deal with them on a case by case basis. I've worked with colleagues who refused to turn on those pop ups, and it was fine 95% of the time, until we had someone who wasn't knowledgeable send files through without embedded profiles, and then the files were being worked on for hours without any indication that there was a massive color change when opening the file initially.
Having it show up in the "convert to profile" list is not relevant here, except to check that you have actually generated a working icc profile from your profiling software.
But long story short, it's all about getting the profile properly activated in windows color management (or colorsync on mac). The settings are not within the adobe suite.
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There's nowhere in photoshop that will show what your current monitor profile is set to.
Nowhere except here:
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Good to know my mind is still somewhere around here.
Of course a valid monitor profile shows up in convert to etc.
And that I'd not missed a new, and only slightly useful confirmation in Cmd_S_K.
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I was able to fix the issue. I opened the Color Settings window, added the correct profile to the list and set it as the default. I then went to the Advanced Tab in the same window and selected the profile in the Device Profile drop-down. I opened photoshop and it displays the correct monitor profile.
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Nowhere except here:
Interesting, I never knew about that. Also, what a strange place to hide it.
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Interesting, I never knew about that. Also, what a strange place to hide it.
Not hidden, and it's been around since Photoshop 5.0 circa 1998 and discussed in a few books and articles (hint/hint ;)) since then.
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Here's one older article for example, with highlighted section attached:
https://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/color_managed_raw_workflow.pdf
I agree tho it's kind of obscure from the UI perspective, which makes it too easy to forget about again.
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And here: https://imagescience.com.au/knowledge/checking-what-monitor-profile-is-being-used-in-photoshop?srsltid=AfmBOor3Yh-8snddsb-P2ow7xE4aCu6wAXQYVugjWC5NQbcWXDOzzatx