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Images with a Valid Workspace Profile

Common Photoshop Tools

Brush Tool

Paint with custom brushes, opacity, and flow control.

Clone Stamp

Sample one area and paint it elsewhere — perfect for repairs.

Healing Brush

Smarter than clone — blends texture and tone of the source.

Pen Tool

Create precise vector paths for selections or shapes.

Master Photoshop at Noble Desktop

Noble Desktop's Photoshop Bootcamp covers retouching, compositing, color correction, and pro editing.

Learn how to set an image to use the embedded profile in Adobe Photoshop, including opening the image, addressing the color settings profile mismatch, and understanding when to use the embedded profile.

Setting the Image to Use the Embedded Profile

  1. Go to File > Open.

  2. From the Color Management Seminar Files folder, open penguin.psd.

  3. The following message will be displayed:

    color settings profile mismatch

  4. Make sure Use the embedded profile is chosen and click OK.

    Explanation: This image’s embedded profile is ColorMatch RGB. Like Adobe RGB, ColorMatch RGB is a good, device-independent workspace. Even though in this class we’ve chosen Adobe RGB as our workspace, it’s not worth converting from one to the other since loss can occur when converting between colorspaces. Because ColorMatch RGB is a perfectly good workspace, we should just use it for this image.

  5. You are now ready to edit the image as needed, though we won’t be editing it now, so close the file.