ProPhoto Colour Space and ProShow

[BobP99]

Really annoying problem since I started processing raw pictures using the Prophoto RGB / 16 bit colourspace in Camera Raw. I try to adjust as much as possible in Camera Raw before opening in CS2, which I use for final corrections (red eye, healing brush etc).

When I open the image in CS2 It tells me the colour space of the image does not match the Working space - I choose to retain the embedded space open the image and make adjustments - everything looks fine.

However, when I then load these images into ProShow 2.6 to build my DVD slideshow, the images are really de-saturated and "flat". I have to go back in CS2 and over-saturate the images to make then appear acceptable in ProShow.

Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[prophotodx]

You need to do a few things, one is to change your RGB color space to Prophoto, since that is your primary space (and the best/largest color space). That will get rid of the error message.

If you are worried about color, I would check to be sure that the DVD program you are using has color management. It does not sound like it does since it just removes the profile instead of converting it. You can get an idea of this same thing by going to Edit, Assign Profile (wrong way, bad idea) and view the change. The proper way is to use Convert to Profile.

You can try to convert the images to sRGB profile and save another set of images to jpeg (separate folder) and import those.

DBX
(Try it my way, it might work...)

 

[apepp]

...just to add, assign profile is for images not tagged with a colour profile, the assign command places the image into a known colour space...

...looking at proshow 2.6 specs, it does indicate that tagged tif files are compatible, you may need to assign your monitor profile instead, I've had a scenario with 3D rendered images looking great in the render, but in photoshop looking as flat as a pancake, assign a monitor profile resolved this issue...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...this link indicates that your version of proshow may not support colour profiles. It seems you need the full bells and whistles version...

http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/compare.html

andrew