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Hello - I've just briefly dipped in to LC after a VERY long gap because I want to update a small utility that I wrote in order to resize and export JPEG images. It works beautifully (even though I say so myself) except it comes unstuck with colour profiles other than sRGB. If, for example, I drop a jpg with an embedded ProPhoto profile, the colours in the resulting resized jpeg (which is saved with sRGB profile) are totally skewed. So what I need is for LC to be able to correctly read the original colour profile, which happens at system level on Mac and Windows. Any ideas??

*** edit*** attached jpeg examples. The first image is a jpeg with ProPhoto colour profile with correct colours (assuming your browser/OS is correctly respecting the profile!) the second image with awful green cast is how LC displays and exports an image with the ProPhoto profile.

Well, I know I have no taste (or answer for your question), and this will probably seem gauche, but I actually like the way picture 2 looks more than picture 1. Picture 2 (to me) looks richer and deeper, picture 1 looks kinda washed out <ducking the rotten vegetables suddenly flying my way>

I've had the same issue when it comes to an app I wrote that added grids, picked colours etc.
When I imported a jpeg with sRGB profile, I could save the image into a custom file, and when I opened the custom file (which had data to recreate gridlines etc.), the image worked just fine.
When I used any other colour profile, the image would open and be skewed, lines were too long, desaturated, just crapped out really!
I am gathering that this is out of the realms of LC, as it uses a typical colour profile, and is unable to handle others (maybe without a specific set of coding that deals with and saves these different colour profiles).
I will be watching with bated breath though, as this might solve my problem too.
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