If you are set to full color management, you are working in the Adobe RGB space. Most likely, your camera takes pictures in the sRGB space if you are getting this error. The solution is to switch either to No Color Management or to Limited Color Management in the PE color settings.
Barbara,
I have all devices and screen set to sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 color gamut and was hoping to set the default in PSE 2 to the same. From what you said, it seems this is not a possibility. ;-(
Thanks for your comeback.
George
"I have all devices and screen set to sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 color gamut and was hoping to set the default in PSE 2 to the same."
George,
Set the Elements Color Preferences to Limited Color Management, that works in the sRGB colorspace.
🙂
Brent
George,
To set the default color space to sRGB, simply set the color option to "Limited" instead of "Full" color management.
The default color space is determined by the color management setting. "Full" sets it to Adobe RGB, "Limited" sets it to sRGB. And, "NO" defaults
to the system monitor profile which should be close to sRGB but is not identical to sRGB.
"Full" honors and preserves any color space embedded in your files, the other two settings do not. Thats not a problem if you work exclusively in sRGB.
Because it honors the color space embedded in the file, "Full" color management will display the popup asking what profile you wish to used if there is no embedded profile in the image file. If there is an embedded profile, "Full" will use that and not display the popup. However, the title bar will display an indicator (an *) to show that the image color space is not the same as the default. This does not mean, however, that you are working in the default space — you will be working in the image color space and this is just a warning that you aren’t using Adobe RGB. That is not an error.
Bob
Bob and Brent,
I do believe that I have it. 😉
Using Limited eliminated the popup menu.
Thanks to all
George
George,
One more comment, this one in regards to the screen profile. You said: "I have all devices and screen set to sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 color gamut".
If you have set your monitor to sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 you need to rethink that. Monitor color spaces are close to sRGB but not exact. If you manually set the profile to sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 you will be off. Maybe a little, maybe a lot — depends on the characteristics of your specific monitor. You need to calibrate your monitor and use the calibrated profile. Or, if you have an LCD monitor and no hardware calibration device, try the monitor profile provided by the manufacturer. Hopefully you have done this and were just being imprecise with your description. Likewise, you don’t assign sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 to the printer. Each device should have it’s own specific profile.
Bob
Yes, Bob is right about that. Go to system prefs>displays and calibrate your monitor from its own profile in the list. Save and name the profile.
