My color profile glitched mid-showcase and washed out everything

Last week I uploaded 14 pieces to a shared gallery drive for our May showcase and forgot to embed the sRGB profile. The screens were all displaying in Adobe RGB so every piece looked super pale and grey, total mess. I fixed it by batch converting everything in Photoshop using the assign profile tool, took about 30 minutes for all files. Anyone else had client screens wreck their colors at the worst possible time?

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emerycarr19d ago

Yeah it ever happen to you that you check everything twice but the one thing that gets you is the color space... I had a client setup where their old monitor was just showing everything way too warm and I didnt catch it until they sent me screenshots of my own work. What finally worked for me was building a little test file with the same colors and sending it to them first before the real stuff. Saves a ton of headache, just a quick 10 minute check before you commit to the whole batch. Also I started saving everything with the ProPhoto RGB profile just for my own files, then converting to sRGB at the very end. That way if something glitches I still have the master.