Embedding an ICC, Images leaving with NO Color Profile

[CharmedLinz]

I need some major help.

This is a subject that I have now talked to 3 people at a print lab and 5 local Pro Computer photography about and cannot figure out.

My images are all sRGB color format automatically by my camera.

Somehow my images are coming into PX5 with the sRGB, but the second I do anything to them even just going to save as and renaming them.... then they no longer have a color profile attached.

I have checked this every which way. I make sure the options box under save as has the box checked for "embed ICC profile". They still go out and then have absolutely NO color profile attached.

This was brought to my attention by an outside lab telling me that my photos were printing wrong because of no color profile being on them.

I tried going through After Shot Pro and can view them with any ICC profile including one from this specific lab, but then even on that program if I try to attach a color profile to my photos that have already gone through PX5..... then after shot can't embed a profile, the box is checked but nothing happens.

Please help.... I have worked on this non stop for a week now and can't figure it out.... the box to embed the profile is always on and not one of my photos has any type of color profile on it after it has been in PX5.

Oh and it's the Ultimate PX5 and all patches etc have been uploaded. I even uninstalled and re-installed once to try and fix.

[chromiumdomium]

I experienced this with X5 too (although I only used the trial) I shall check with X4 and the New X6 as soon as I get back to my home PC and report back. I'd forgotten about this issue because I print locally and usually from Lightroom. The web assumes sRGB anyway so embedding is overkill for that purpose. In view of the current issues with PSPX6 and colour management that I'm experiencing, I'm a bit worried about that whole area of the Paint Shop Pro functionality.

[chromiumdomium]

Hi,

I've checked what happens.

With PSPX4 it appears that the photo is not tagged as sRGB, even with embed ICC profile checked in the save dialogue for JPEGs.

PSPX6 now does this and tags the image. However....

and strangely, in the info pain for the images in both PSPX4 and PSPX6 the colour space doesn't report sRGB just "--". This is for copies of the same photo with and without the profiles being embedded.

Utilizing Adobe Bridge I can see the "untagged" and "sRGB" settings correctly. Thus I believe the PSPX6 save dialogue is working correctly but the colour space tag reader or display in PSP, either version, isn't.

One final observation, The test image I saved off in PSPX4 with profile embedded that shows up as untagged in Adobe Bridge is 7.67MB the same as the tagged image in PSPX6. However the image without embedded profile from PSPX6 is 7.66M and so is the one from PSPX4. It is possible that the ICC profile has always been embedded when checked to do so, but somehow the tagging is not reliable. I'm only speculating on this due to the disparity of the output file sizes as I don't have the technical ability to go any further with this.

I hope this helps, and am praying that Corel get their colour profiling sorted out sooner rather than later!

Greg